The report provides a summary of employers’ use and views of the vocational education and training (VET) system in Australia and focuses on employer engagement and satisfaction with both accredited and unaccredited training. The 2025 survey included a module on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and tools in the organisation.

There has been a rise in excessively stringent regulation across the Australian economy, Australia will need to reform these regulatory systems to meet its goals to increase housing supply and manage the energy transition. To date, no analysis has tracked Australian regulatory restrictions by industry. This paper presents a starting point for a new measure.

The final report of the independent review of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988, the legislative framework that underpins the Commonwealth workers’ compensation scheme. The review made 124 recommendations, focussing on: best practice in workers’ compensation; workers’ experience of the scheme; scheme coverage and entitlements; governance and administration; and reducing disputes.

The statistical report provides a single, comprehensive annual source of infrastructure statistics for use by policymakers, industry, transport analysts and the wider Australian community. Areas covered include freight, passengers, road-related revenue and expenditure, road, rail, aviation, shipping, transport safety, transport energy and environment, infrastructure and the economy, and infrastructure construction.

Policy and demographics are changing the character of Australia’s social safety net. Cash transfers like JobSeeker and Family Tax Benefit are shrinking. Meanwhile, ‘in-kind’ transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and health care are increasing quickly. This paper uses survey microdata to detail how rising in-kind transfers are changing who receives government support.