This report considers the impact of the State Government's decision to delay raising Victoria’s school funding to 75% of the Schooling Resource Standard. It makes a number of recommendations for the Victorian and Commonwealth Government to improve funding levels and mechanisms for public schools.

The report from an inquiry into the Northern Basin Toolkit, a package of measures aimed at maximising environmental outcomes in the northern Murray-Darling Basin. The report finds the toolkit has severely underdelivered on its environmental commitments, with key infrastructure projects falling drastically short of their original targets. It makes seven recommendations.

The Labour Government in the United Kingdom (UK) has set itself the mission of markedly raising the UK's growth rate. This report sets out the underlying problems with the way the Government – like many previous governments – approaches growth policy and how the centre can be reformed to better equip it to take tough...

An investigation of the underlying drivers of recent cost growth in Australian public hospital services. The report identifies several key cost growth factors and provides nine recommendations for consideration by the Board of Treasurers to inform ongoing negotiations on the next five-year National Health Reform Agreement expected to commence in July 2026.

An analysis of The Better and Fairer Schools Agreement - Full and Fair Funding 2025-2034 between the Australian Commonwealth and state and territory governments finds that public schools will still be underfunded in 2034. The paper outlines the reasons for the continued underfunding and calls for the agreements to be revised.