Briefing paper
Briefing paper
ASEAN action on countering trafficking in persons and forced labour: constraints and opportunities
This paper seeks to advance understanding of the vulnerabilities of labour migrants to exploitation and trafficking. This can contribute to improved response capabilities of state agencies and international programmes to address these issues and strengthen protection and support for labour migrants and victims of trafficking in persons.
Briefing paper
Underwater bushfire: vibrant Great Barrier Reef fading to a shadow of its former glory
This briefing paper provides an update of what’s unfolding on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, situates this event in the broader context of ongoing change to the climate and oceans, and explains how we can do more to better protect the reef.
Briefing paper
Protecting cognition: background paper on human rights and neurotechnology
The Australian Human Rights Commission is focusing on the rapid development of neurotechnology and how it may challenge human rights. This paper represents an important first step in stimulating discussions and identifying gaps in the Australian response to neurotechnologies.
Briefing paper
Transforming for value-based health care: lessons from NHS Wales
The sustainability of healthcare systems around the world are under threat - with the way care is designed and delivered in need of reform. This paper compares the Welsh and Australian experience of exploring and implementing value-based health care.
Briefing paper
Generative AI in higher education: the product landscape
This paper has been prepared to enrich the descriptive data captured in the Ithaka S+R 'Product Tracker'. In the first section, the authors provide a typology of existing products and value propositions. In the second, they offer observations about what the product landscape suggests about the future of teaching, learning, and research practices, and speculations...