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Organisation

Centre for Policy Development

Acronym:
CPD
Discussion paper

Ethnic divides in schooling


This discussion paper examines the impact of increasing cultural diversity on our education system in two main arenas: firstly, variation of educational outcomes of LBOTE students and, secondly, enrolment in schools.
Report

Seven steps to SUCCESS: enabling refugee entrepreneurs to flourish


Despite the huge challenges they face, refugees are the most entrepreneurial migrants in Australia and they are nearly twice as likely to be entrepreneurs as Australian taxpayers in general. Yet refugee entrepreneurship hardly features in public debate and receives little policy support.
Article

Climate change and director's duties: supplementary memorandum of opinion


This memorandum provides an update to a 2016 legal opinion on how Australian law requires company directors to consider, disclose and respond to climate change.
Report

Avoiding a crisis within a crisis


This assessment report finds that the conditions for high levels of trafficking, smuggling and related exploitation are present and will only intensify with time, affecting both the Rohingya and Bangladeshi populations.
Discussion paper

Public authority directors’ duties and climate change


This paper argues that while some public authorities are responding in a sophisticated way to climate risk, changes are needed to support wider adoption of best-practice approaches. The authors makes four recommendations that could help boards and directors to better manage climate risks.

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