This recorded webinar by Nicole Done, neuro-inclusion expert, educator and advisor at the Xceptional Academy, supports employment services staff to explore individuals’ work styles and preferences beyond diagnosis. It covers conversations on productivity, learning, communication, feedback, sensory needs, workplace environments, and challenges with self-awareness due to long-term masking among neurodivergent people across diverse settings.

The federal government’s comprehensive $47 billion plan to rebuild Australia’s housing system. It identifies policy levers at the Commonwealth, state and territory, and local government levels. The plan sets out six priorities for further reform and directs future housing and homelessness investment.

Australia’s Baby Bonus, implemented from July 2004, provided a $3,000 payment for each newborn child, aiming to support families and boost fertility rates. Twenty years later, this paper explores whether the Baby Bonus shifted the course of these young people’s lives in a measurable way.

Facing record public debt and mounting spending pressures, OECD countries must look beyond traditional tools to secure fiscal sustainability: it can no longer be achieved without public buy-in. This report highlights that empowering public understanding is now an essential component of modern budgeting. It outlines a strategy based on four pillars.

The Australian Government is reforming mainstream employment services to better meet the needs of individuals, employers, communities and the economy. This paper outlines a vision and framework for the future employment services system based on extensive community feedback. The Government invites feedback on particular aspects of the design of a new employment services system.