This report aims to help governments strengthen financial resilience against catastrophic risks. It provides a framework to assess the need for government-supported financial protection and the advantages and disadvantages of the main approaches to offering such support. It applies this framework to three types of large-scale risks: natural hazards, infectious disease outbreaks and cyber-attacks and...

This report examines how the Queensland Government is managing its finances, including the overall financial performance of the state. It reports on key changes to debt and investments and the management of some major initiatives. The report includes the revenue, expenses, assets and liabilities for general government and the total state sector.

This report examined whether there is transparent, accurate and meaningful public information about the progress of 110 major projects surveyed in Victoria. It found public reporting does not always provide enough information to give Parliament and the community a complete understanding of major projects’ performance. The report made one recommendation to address the findings.

The report provides benchmarks for the analysis of employer gender pay gaps and identifies three key areas where progress can accelerate. It is based on the data of 10,500 employers, representing the workplaces of almost 5.9 million Australians. The report finds that more employers have a gender pay gap in the target range.

Household wealth in Australia has grown strongly over the past two decades. But this growth has not been evenly distributed across the population or across the life course. This briefing examines the distribution of net worth and its key components across Australian age cohorts, with a particular focus on households aged 65 and over.