This research summary provides an overview of how professional learning can influence and support the use of evidence-based practices in schools and early childhood education and care services, to enhance learning outcomes. It outlines early evidence from a research project on coaching. Coaching is a promising strategy for supporting improvements in teacher practice.

Conventional productivity measurement frameworks increasingly fall short in recognising emergent drivers of productivity. This paper puts forward an enhanced productivity measurement framework incorporating extra inputs that are both distinct and essential to current and future productivity growth – information and data, care and human services, and artificial intelligence.

People with intellectual disability often find it hard to get the health care they need and tend to have worse health than others. This review looked at healthcare models used in Australia to find what works best in health care for people with intellectual disability. The report has 11 recommendations for improving healthcare services for...

A briefing on research that looked at policies from across Australia to assess whether they help create better neighbourhoods for children with disabilities and their families. It found that most policies were too small, missed big changes and urban planning was almost never used to help children.

Australia is a low tax country, with increasing demands for government spending. This paper identifies three simple tax reforms which would raise an extra $70 billion a year without hurting low or middle-income Australians: more comprehensive taxation of capital gains, the introduction of an annual wealth tax and the introduction of a wealth transfer tax.