Australia
Evaluation
Age Assurance Technology Trial
The Age Assurance Technology Trial evaluated the effectiveness, reliability and privacy impacts of a range of age assurance technologies. It assesses their performance against a wide range of internationally recognised criteria. It finds age assurance can be done in Australia privately, efficiently and effectively.
Working paper
Voice AI and authenticity: current issues and emerging challenges
Voice technologies are rapidly being integrated into generative artificial intelligence (AI) enabled systems and applications. This paper surveys and historically situates these developments, reviews the current literature in relevant fields, and outlines some emerging responses to the challenges such technologies present to the issue of authenticity in real-world settings.
Report
Social media minimum age obligation, roundtable discussion: parents and carers
This report provides parent- and carer-based insights to inform eSafety’s implementation of the Social Media Minimum Age obligation in Australia, derived from two roundtable sessions. The report details the themes of the discussion in relation to four key focus areas identified by the eSafety Commissioner. It synthesises discussion input into key recommendations.
Conference paper
Competitive care: why, when and how competition can improve human services
The care economy is a significant part of ‘human services’ which make up most of the non-market sector in Australia. However, labour productivity in the non-market sector has been negative over the past decade. This paper poses that improving productivity, service standards and innovation in the care economy is a key part of improving Australians’...
Report
Whistleblower Protection Authority Bill 2025
An inquiry and report into the Whistleblower Protection Authority Bill 2025 (No. 2) which would establish an independent statutory authority, the Whistleblower Protection Authority, and provide for the appointment of the Whistleblower Protection Commissioner. The committee recommends that the Senate does not pass the Bill.