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Report
Gambling Policy and Research Unit: synthesis report
This report is the culmination of a four-year independent research program into gambling across Great Britain, conducted between 2021 and 2025. The report summarises the approach and findings. It concludes with recommendations for policymakers, researchers and the gambling sector on how to continue developing practical, evidence-based ways to reduce gambling-related harms.
Report
On our own terms: emerging insights report. Systems change through lived experience leadership
This report describes in-depth conversations with lived experience and community leaders across Australia, as part of a national project exploring lived experience leadership. The report discusses how lived experience leadership is practised and what it might take to better support and scaffold this work.
Briefing paper
Mainstreamed but sidelined: global funding for gender equality
Gender equality is central to sustainable development and is a crucial enabler of global security, stability and prosperity, but progress is stagnating or regressing across much of the developing world. This report assesses the current situation and suggests changes to reverse the regression of gender equality in the developing world.
Guide
Early intervention for young people’s mental health
This guide presents a framework for understanding early intervention in community-based mental health supports for children and families. It covers the difference between mental health and mental illness, definitions of the main provision levels of early intervention and challenges to providing early intervention supports.
Report
The state of multicultural mental health in Australia
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.