This report provides an overview of investors’ climate progress in Australia, based on data from 65 of the largest superannuation funds, retail funds, and fund managers. It reports on positive progress with investor interest increasing across a range of climate solutions. Barriers remain to investing in climate solutions which offset some of the positive trends.

Across Australia, governments are incarcerating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at disproportionately high rates compared to non-Indigenous children. This racial discrimination complaint, made to the United Nations, highlights Australia's' discriminatory youth justice systems and how they seriously violate the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

Australia’s news industry is highly concentrated, with 84% of newspaper revenue going to one of four large conglomerates. This paper notes that hundreds of news outlets have been shut down in the last five years, with the worst impacts in regional areas. Australia-wide the newspaper industry is shrinking in its output and diversity and this...

The implementation of Navigators as outlined in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Review holds the potential to significantly enhance the way people with disability access and navigate the supports available to them. This report draws on a project to hear directly from people with disability about what they want to see from the proposed...

Government-funded child care subsidies aim to increase maternal labour force participation and improve access to formal child care. This paper examined the effects of a major child care policy reform implemented in 2018, finding that it had no measurable effect on maternal labour supply and led to a limited increase in formal child care use.