Based on SNAICC's ongoing engagement with child protection services regarding the impacts of COVID-19, they have identified, and made recommendations to address, the most common and critical issues.

This brief provides an overview of the most common and critical issues identified by SNAICC in its ongoing engagement with services and makes recommendations to address these challenges.

This Issues Brief explains that decisions about the opening and closing of schools and the school calendar are, for non-government schools, largely left in local hands. This arrangement is the result of over a century of productive dialogue between the government and the non-government school sector.

With the federal government recently announcing a support package for the arts and entertainment sector, this background brief summarises Australia Institute research on the economic role of the sector and related polling.

For Australia, no areas of policy are more central to our economic future and place in the world than energy and climate change. This paper argues that a renewable energy powered recovery can create a brighter future for all Australians, and ensure we play our part in ending poverty worldwide.