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Report
Healthy starts: the state of Australia’s child and family health service system
This report maps the experiences of families accessing the network of health services and supports in Australia available from the very beginning of pregnancy, through birth, and across the first 2,000 days of a child’s life. It identifies key system-wide barriers that prevent children and families from accessing high-quality, connected support.
Research Summary
Young Australians’ civic engagement
This research snapshot from the Growing Up in Australia study provides a nuanced picture of young people’s civic and political engagement. It supports the idea that their engagement is evolving; young people continue to participate in civic and political life, through digital and informal pathways, as well as traditional pathways.
Strategy
Monitoring and reporting framework: National plan to end violence against women and children 2022–2032
This framework supports monitoring of Australia's progress across all domains of the National plan to end violence against women and children 2022–2032. It adopts a systems-based approach to assessing whether collective efforts across governments, sectors and service systems are driving meaningful change. The framework will support a more connected national response across prevention and early...
Report
Why the Left abandoned Israel
The paper argues that the Australian Left's transformation from one of Israel's strongest supporters to one of its most persistent critics reflects profound ideological changes within Western politics. It proposes that reducing antisemitism requires stronger political leadership, consistent enforcement of existing laws and open public debate instead of relying mainly on new speech restrictions.
Report
Enhancing adolescent social and emotional well-being
Adolescence is a critical developmental period characterised by rapid physical, cognitive and psychosocial changes that are often accompanied by declines in social and emotional wellbeing. This paper argues for an approach to promoting adolescents’ wellbeing tailored specifically to boys and girls and presents a cross-national analysis of social and emotional outcomes among adolescent girls and...