The Culture Standard provides a framework for clients and contractors to work together to address significant challenges facing the construction industry. It seeks to leverage procurement processes to transform the industry’s capacity and effectiveness and improve the lives of its workers.

This article describes the findings from 15 interviews on the lived experience of hospital discharge and returning to the community for people with acquired disability and complex needs in the Australian context. It identifies opportunities to co-design solutions that improve the experience of leaving hospital for this group.

This report suggests that Australia’s heavy reliance on personal income tax is unsustainable and will worsen without reform. Bracket creep is an automatic tax increase that occurs when income tax thresholds remain fixed while wages rise with inflation. This report proposes a straightforward solution: indexing personal income tax brackets to inflation.

Australia can unlock the benefits of data and digital technology with a growth-focused approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI), new pathways to give people access to the data about themselves and a shift to digital financial reporting. This interim report is the third of five inquiries into productivity that present practical reforms to get Australia...

This report analyses Australia and Indonesia's defence and wider security partnership, identifying several areas where the countries should productively concentrate their efforts in the coming years. The Australia–Indonesia Defence Cooperation Agreement provides useful avenues to expand the defence relationship at a time when Indonesia finds itself courted by other countries that don’t share Australia’s security...