The fiscal challenges of population ageing can be tackled in a number of ways. These include investing in capital and productivity of the smaller workforce, greater saving for retirement, higher migration, an active population policy, reducing benefits for the old, and/or encouraging and enabling them to work longer. This briefing focuses on the latter.

The airport can no longer be viewed in isolation from its regional setting. Modern airports are major nodes of economic, environmental and social impact. Their efficiency and development potential are inextricably linked with the wider urban context, and in particular, interaction with urban planning systems. There is a mutual dependency which needs to be realised...

Buildings present a significant amount of opportunity for climate mitigation. Since they are long-lived assets, they also present great challenges for adaptation to projected as well as unexpected climate change impacts. These impacts will have consequences for building design and fabric, as well as for people in and around buildings and for their health and...

There is a lack of empirical research in Australia examining the lifecourse institutional costs associated with vulnerable people who are homeless. The study presented here has developed pathway costings using the Mental Health and Cognitive Disability in the Criminal Justice System (MHDCD) Dataset that contains data on lifelong interventions and interactions with all criminal justice...

This report examines the health and welfare outcomes of legislative reforms affecting the NSW sex industry.