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Guide
Working together to prevent everyday harm
Everyday harm, such as being ignored or talked badly about, or not having your choices and preferences acted on, happens often to people with disability. This guide provides advice on how to notice, acknowledge and respond to harm, as well as how to repair harm and make changes so it doesn't happen again.
Report
Creating inclusive courts and tribunals
This report is designed to guide service inclusion improvements for courts and tribunals that recognise the needs of people with disability. It includes disability-aware and disability-inclusive practices, screening approaches, judicial guidelines, and specialised court programs, drawing on both evaluative data and good practice principles.
From data to dignity 2026: health and wellbeing indicators for New Zealanders with intellectual disability
This report tracks more than 70 indicators across health, education, housing, justice and income, systematically using government data to examine outcomes for people with intellectual disability. The latest data shows inequities remain entrenched – and in some cases are worsening.
Briefing paper
Gambling advertising
Evidence shows that gambling advertising is contributing to increasing individual and social harms. Many Australians are also frustrated by current levels of gambling advertising, and especially about children’s exposure to it. This policy brief outlines the drivers behind the Murphy inquiry recommendation, the current state of gambling advertising regulation, and possible avenues for change.
Report
Settling up: a new deal to unlock immigration reform and build trust
This paper presents opportunities to upgrade democracy through setting out a practical route to detoxify one of the most polarised policy issues – immigration. The paper calls for the United Kingdom Government to commission a national deliberative process – a citizens’ assembly – on earned settlement, and to pilot place-based deliberative processes on integration and...