Price caps are a core regulatory tool of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This paper examines how market prices and service volumes responded to the July 2025 NDIS price caps adjustments. The results suggest that price cap adjustments affect both expenditure and service provision, highlighting a trade-off that warrants ongoing monitoring of provider behaviour.

This report highlights how today’s young Australians differ from previous generations and explores what this means for their economic security, work opportunities, living arrangements, path to independence and overall wellbeing. For policymakers seeking to seeking to ensure that an intergenerational pattern of improvement continues, this report offers three implications.

Government-funded child care subsidies aim to increase maternal labour force participation and improve access to formal child care. This paper examined the effects of a major child care policy reform implemented in 2018, finding that it had no measurable effect on maternal labour supply and led to a limited increase in formal child care use.

The JobSeeker Coronavirus Supplement was designed to support households that experienced job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper found that these higher benefit payments lead to a change in labour market behaviour, reducing the incentive for people to work. It provides three lessons from the research.