Royal Commissions
Report
Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme: report
The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was established in August 2022, with Catherine Holmes AC SC appointed Royal Commissioner. This final report from the Commissioner makes 57 recommendations which will have significant implications from both a policy and service delivery perspective.
Report
Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care: interim report
The interim report seeks the feedback of South Australians on the Commission's vision for the future of preschool. Views expressed in relation to the findings and 33 recommendations of this report will inform the Commission's final report due in August 2023.
Report
Agents of our own destiny: activism and the road to the disability Royal Commission
There are two chronologies that tell the story of the establishment of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability – one known, the other unknown. In short, the creation of the Royal Commission was never inevitable, but once the lives of 460,000 people with disability were directly connected to...
Report
Second year review of the National Redress Scheme: final report
This review concludes that a significant and urgent reset of the National Redress Scheme is required to deliver on the commitments of governments, provide survivors with an acknowledgment that the abuse should not have occurred, and confirm that the scheme is a survivor-centred, humane and less onerous option than civil action.
Working paper
30 years on: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommendations remain unimplemented
This paper outlines concerns with the 2018 Deloitte Access Economics review of the implementation of the 339 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. It updates a statement which argued that due to its scope and methodology, the Deloitte review had the potential to misrepresent the extent to which the RCIADIC recommendations...