This paper examines the right to protest in New South Wales and the central role of the Summary Offences Act 1988, which encourages co-operation between protesters and police. That Act can also result in courts issuing ‘authorisation’ and ‘prohibition’ orders. The effects of those orders ar​e discussed.

This paper discusses the general criminal offence of manslaughter, outlines the key offences in current work health and safety laws, summarises the debate, and examines industrial manslaughter laws in other Australian jurisdictions.

This paper updates a 2017 paper​ by the NSW Parliamentary Research Service. It features a timeline of privatisations that have occurred in NSW since 1989, up to the most recent sale of the Westconnex Group in 2021.

This paper examines the role of single-use ​plastic (SUP) bans in addressing plastic pollution, outlines current debates on how to replace banned SUP products, and compares SUP bans in international and Australian jurisdictions.

This data brief provides important data about housing for all 93 NSW electorates. It shows data for each electorate and enables comparison of electorates using interactive tables. The brief draws on the 2021 Census and more recent sources to show headline electorate data across 7 housing supply and affordability indicators.