Australia
Guide
Discovery Record and Business/Job Seeker Compatibility Analysis
Two practical guides with fillable forms designed to help initiate the Customised Employment process for people with disability. Customised Employment tailors a job or self-employment to fit the interests, contributions and conditions for success of a person, while also meeting the needs of a business or the market for a product or service.
Report
Towards a more seamless Australian economy
This report makes the case for a sustained commitment to better regulation and harmonisation across Australia. It recommends a new seamless national economy agreement between the Federal Government and states and territories, identifying nine priority areas for reform and key steps to ensure success.
Briefing paper
Transition tax incentive: reforming fuel tax credits into a decarbonisation tailwind
A policy proposal to phase-out Australia's Fuel Tax Credit scheme, which subsidises imported high-emissions diesel use, with a transition tax incentive scheme to accelerate electrification and decarbonisation. This paper argues that the fuel tax does not fund roads – it is industry assistance.
Evaluation
Specialist Training Program evaluation and targeted stakeholder engagement final report
An evaluation of the Specialist Training Program (STP) which aims to improve the future specialist workforce by extending non-GP specialist medical training into regional, rural, remote and private healthcare settings. The process evaluation provides an assessment of the STP to date and considers how the program could be improved.
Report
Suicidal thoughts and behaviours in adolescence
This snapshot discusses suicidal thoughts and behaviours in adolescence. It finds around one-third of Australian teenagers have experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the last 12 months. The findings support the need for suicide prevention efforts to consider individual risk factors and key social determinants of suicidal thoughts and behaviours for young people.