The study provides an assessment of the extent to which Australian street-level drug law enforcement approaches are perceived as procedurally just by people who use illicit drugs, to benchmark procedural justice levels and to identify predictors of and methods to enhance procedural justice. It outlines avenues to improve the procedural justice in Australia.

The final report from an inquiry into community safety in regional and rural New South Wales. The report mainly focusses on issues related to policing, young people’s experiences of the justice system and legislative frameworks. It makes 7 findings and 15 recommendations. Several recommendations are aimed at addressing issues regarding the youth justice system.

Centred on the themes of justice, equality and healing, this report demonstrates how social, cultural and institutional determinants shape health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents ten recommendations aimed at embedding Indigenous rights in public policy, strengthening accountability across governments, and ensuring the National Agreement delivers tangible and equitable...

This report presents a summary of an examination of Queensland's Fighting Antisemitism and Keeping Guns out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Bill 2026. The committee’s task was to consider the policy to be achieved by the legislation and the application of fundamental legislative principles. The committee recommends that the Bill be passed.

A well-functioning democracy depends on informed, transparent and accountable law-making. Using recent case studies, this paper shows how limited consultation and attempts to short-circuit committee scrutiny can undermine legislative quality and democratic legitimacy. The paper calls for four law-making integrity safeguards to be embedded as standard practice as a practical standard for the Australian Parliament.