This report raises awareness of the connection between climate change and human rights and outlines the critical importance of addressing climate change to protect people’s rights in Australia. The message of the report is clear: if we want to protect our quality of life, we must address climate change with greater urgency.

Australia’s ability to simultaneously claim that it is acting on climate change while also subsidising and approving major new fossil fuel projects, stems from the way successive Australian Governments have focused attention on emissions reduction targets that are arbitrary and poorly defined. This paper highlights some of the more obvious problems with Australia’s target setting.

The Scottish Government has set out an ambitious vision for an economy that is ‘fair, green and growing’ and has committed to delivering a just transition to net zero by 2045. This paper assesses the existing approach to economic strategy and policy and outlines a strategy for transforming its tools, institutions and capabilities around an...

The New South Wales JobSaver program was a job retention scheme that supported businesses and workers during the 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns by subsidising a proportion of firms’ payroll expenses. But like the federal JobKeeper program, it may have preserved jobs during the lockdown at the cost of poorer future labour market outcomes for the workers...

Despite the removal of COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions and a strong economic recovery, live music venues in Victoria continue to struggle. This paper explores proposals to resolve some of the challenges that live music venues face including reforms to government funding, levies on major live music events as a revenue source for smaller venues, voucher programs...