A consultation paper about the Disability Support Quality and Safeguarding Framework and Ecosystem Safeguarding Strategy, developed in response to the Royal Commission. Aimed at unifying safeguards for all Australians with disability, it seeks community and sector views on the meaning of safeguards, what effective safeguards look like, and how quality should be defined.

Heavy alcohol use by men can escalate and worsen their violent behaviour towards women. This policy brief recommends governments explicitly address the link between alcohol and gender-based violence in law, policy and regulation. It sets out practical opportunities for Australian policymakers as well as a range of other community-based strategies.

This handbook serves as a practical guide to help energy and water businesses assess and strengthen their response to family violence. It reflects deepening understanding about family violence risk in essential services, including the importance of taking a Safety by Design approach – a framework to anticipate, detect and eliminate harm before it occurs.

This paper argues that the debate over whether social media's impact on mental health is correlational or causal should not delay actions to protect young people's wellbeing. Addressing the impact of social media on young people’s mental health requires a proactive, multifaceted approach. Alongside multifaceted action, the paper provides recommendations for a research agenda.

Adverse events during hospital care are a global concern. The evidence for addressing unsafe acute care using pay-for-performance is inconclusive. This research examined the association between the introduction of a financial penalty introduced by Australian policy in July 2018 and the prevalence of 13 high-priority hospital-acquired complications in Australian public hospitals.