As Australia prepares to set its new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement, this report examines the investment, enabling reforms and policy interventions required across a range of emissions reduction scenarios by 2035. It examines the critical policy levers needed across seven key sectors to facilitate the change that is needed.

This report aims to help businesses understand, predict and respond to the complex changes in the labour market unfolding in Australia over 2025–26. It outlines the economic context, labour market dynamics and impacts for employers. The report finds that the labour market has not adjusted in line with the broader economy.

This report sets out the findings and recommendations of a 6-year evaluation of the Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme (IAHP) from 2017 to 2023. The aim of the evaluation was to strengthen the appropriateness and effectiveness of comprehensive primary health care systems for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. It finds Aboriginal Community Controlled...

Income apportionment was a long-standing practice of the Australian Government, dating back to the early 1990s, adopted to calculate social security debts. The historical use of income apportionment is now understood to be generally unlawful. This Impact Analysis considers a number of options for resolving historical debts calculated using income apportionment.

This report addresses the challenge that low traffic volumes in remote and regional areas make it difficult for traditional cost-benefit analysis methods to support road improvements in these areas in line with community expectations and government policy objectives. It develops ways to improve the efficiency, equity and transparency of decision-making for road funding in these...