This article describes a set of guiding principles for genuine co-design with children and young people with disability in Australia. Based on insights from autoethnographic reflections, four relationally driven guiding principles for genuine co-design are developed: personalised, holistic, reflexive and inclusive.

The paper captures findings and recommendations from work on the future of co-design practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It provides an update on consultations, as well as case studies that illustrate key approaches to authentic co-design. The paper presents a call to action for governments to ensure dramatic improvements in co-design practices.

This paper describes a co-designed project that models the impact of hypothetical policy interventions on mental health inequities experienced by people with disability. It argues achieving more equitable solutions requires adopting a human-rights informed framework and working in partnership with the people most impacted by inequities and government representatives tasked with developing policy responses.

The report details the impact of the nationally delivered, culturally responsive trauma informed training initiative Project Waterways, highlighting how the co-design approach strengthened the Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisations sector, increased workforce capability to respond to intergenerational trauma and drove progress towards the National Agreement on Closing the Gap Target 12.

This paper argues that current neuroinclusion efforts in education, employment and public policy remain dominated by compliance‑led, deficit‑oriented models that position professionals as experts ‘knowing for’ neurodivergent people. It reconceptualises neuroinclusion as a participatory, imaginative practice where lived experience guides co‑designed policy, enabling more adaptive, just and future‑focused institutions.