In 2017, ACCR identified human rights as a key issue for research. Together with the Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER), ACCR has produced this detailed benchmark report, examining the performance of Australian listed companies with regards to how they manage human rights risks.

This report looks at what shareholders and the public know about corporate political expenditure in Australia.

A recent audit of accuracy at Centrelink revealed that an estimated one million mistakes had been made by the agency over a four-month period - an example of how burgeoning complexity has caused a deterioration in accuracy. Howard Pender describes the forms complexity takes, examines the problems it causes and discusses 'rulebase technologies' which, in...