This gender lens on the Budget is produced as an annual report on the implementation of government commitments to gender equality across the Australian federal Budget. It finds there are some positive steps in the 2026–27 Budget, but the environment in which it has landed is fraught. Recommendations are identified across portfolio areas.

This paper presents a meta-analysis of ex-post empirical evidence on the effects of mitigation policies on emissions. It covers a range of pricing and non-pricing mitigation policies across five broad sectors: agriculture, forestry and other land use, buildings, industry, power and transport. The analysis assesses how policy design attributes and country-specific factors impact estimated policy...

This research investigates a range of short-term rental accommodation (STRA) models across Australia and their impacts on housing markets and communities. It identifies the policy responses most likely to resolve the competing demands for short- and long-term rental housing. Understanding STRA models, provider motivations, and impacts is key to effective policy development and regulation.

Forty years after Paul Keating’s famous warning that Australia risked becoming a “banana republic”, this paper argues the country is once again drifting towards economic decline through rising government spending, protectionism and an abandonment of the reform spirit that transformed Australia in the 1980s.

This report examines the extent to which mental health policy intent, legal obligations and fundamental principles are being realised in practice. It identifies examples of emerging good practice with the potential to be adopted at scale and contribute to the realisation of policy objectives. It finds overseas-born Australians more likely to delay mental health support.