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Australia

Video

Lunch & learn: Preparing young people with disability for work


Fewer than half of all disabled young people are employed and the unemployment rate for young people with disability is more than double the rate for young people without disability. This webinar explores what young people with disability want from work and how employers can support them to achieve these goals.
Briefing paper

Take a seat: listening to the policy priorities of Australia's young women


Young women are persistently absent from policymaking, but are overrepresented in experiences of financial stress, gender-based violence, medical misogyny and climate anxiety. This policy brief, written by young women, presents the most pressing policy issues impacting young Australians, and calls on the Australian Government to resource their expertise and safeguard their futures.
Briefing paper

Banana republic redux: how Australia is surrendering gains of the reform era


Forty years after Paul Keating’s famous warning that Australia risked becoming a “banana republic”, this paper argues the country is once again drifting towards economic decline through rising government spending, protectionism and an abandonment of the reform spirit that transformed Australia in the 1980s.
Assessment

National Disability Insurance Scheme reforms


The National Disability Insurance Scheme plays a critical role in supporting people with disability in Australia, but it is growing fast and participants are not always receiving high quality care. This impact analysis considers four potential policy options for reform, recommending a new support coordination approach.
Report

Beyond patchwork reform: a new institutional architecture for the National Electricity Market


According to this report, the National Electricity Market (NEM) – the system which connects more than 80% of Australians to one electricity grid – needs a fundamental overhaul. The original design of the NEM assumed that private markets and price signals could not only guide investment, but also accommodate changing environmental requirements. The analysis makes...
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