This report examines affordability and access challenges in mental health care and outlines ways to strengthen Australia’s mental health financial safety net - funding supports that reduce personal treatment costs. The authors identify opportunities for improvement and offer key recommendations to ensure financially vulnerable Australians can access the care they need without falling into hardship.

This paper argues that Australia is at a critical junction, as it seeks to keep pace with the rapidly evolving global AI landscape. It highlights a severe lack of local AI expertise; the need for significant investment in infrastructure and AI literacy; and the importance of considering multiple factors when developing the business care for...

This paper argues that insurance company boards are uniquely positioned to affect positive change by strengthening their oversight of fairness practices. It challenges boards to consider how they currently ensure fair customer outcomes and how they might better consider the impact of insurance practices on the community.

This report builds on the Actuaries Institute’s May 2023 Green Paper that found inequality in Australia is significantly higher than in the 1980s.

This report takes a broad review of inequality and its impact on society. It carries out an in-depth analysis to determine the role demographic factors, such as age, gender, disability, location, education and employment backgrounds play in determining inequality. It does this through decomposition of the Gini coefficient.