The index presents the key indicators of housing insecurity in Victoria alongside social housing availability. It shows Victoria’s housing crisis has worsened across almost every key measure. The data shows surging rents, a ballooning social housing waitlist and thousands of people forced into homelessness because of family violence and housing stress. It provides three recommendations.

This report is designed to assist policymakers, policy influentials and the lay public to understand the issues around rent regulation and how to design and implement regulation. It provides a case study of the Victorian rental system to look at trends in rents and what the data could reveal about likely outcomes from implementation of...

Moving to a more authentic and comprehensive measure of productivity means recognising that not all value is immediate, monetised or measurable in output per hour terms. This paper outlines some practical, forward-looking approaches to ensure Australia's productivity framework reflects the true value of service-sector investments and supports better policy decisions in a time of transformation.

Conventional productivity measurement frameworks increasingly fall short in recognising emergent drivers of productivity. This paper puts forward an enhanced productivity measurement framework incorporating extra inputs that are both distinct and essential to current and future productivity growth – information and data, care and human services, and artificial intelligence.

This report presents a shortlist of potential policy instruments to promote sustainable and inclusive wellbeing regardless of economic growth. It presents a brief overview of each policy instrument, describing the main idea and providing real life examples. It also addresses technical infrastructure and governance elements that support these policies.