This report examines a sharp rise in international student attrition at Australian universities and what it reveals about the growing misuse of the student visa system. It shows that first-year dropout rates among international undergraduate students have risen to historically high levels. The report proposes targeted reforms to restore integrity to the student visa program.

Research examining official National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participation data to explore how NDIS use varies by geographic areas within Greater Sydney. The report reveals disparities in NDIS participation rates and specific disability rates (across autism, developmental delay, intellectual disability or psychosocial disability) by Local Government Area.

The Australian Government has introduced a series of industrial relations (IR) laws that in large part mark a deliberate and systematic shift away from the enterprise-level bargaining model. This report details how the Government’s IR laws are reshaping Australia’s industrial landscape and radically regressing from the workplace reforms of the Hawke and Keating government era.

This report suggests that Australia’s heavy reliance on personal income tax is unsustainable and will worsen without reform. Bracket creep is an automatic tax increase that occurs when income tax thresholds remain fixed while wages rise with inflation. This report proposes a straightforward solution: indexing personal income tax brackets to inflation.

This report finds that the modern-day union movement has become a self-serving, complex commercial network that has monetised the industrial relations system to extract financial and political benefits. It provides recommendations to protect members’ interests over those of union profiteers with proposed measures to enhance transparency, curb conflicts of interest and restore trust.