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Australia

Report

Effectiveness of the Commonwealth Home Support Program


The Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) has provided entry‑level aged care services to people in their homes to assist them to live safely and independently. This audit examined the effectiveness of the CHSP. The audit found the CHSP is partly effective. It provides recommendations to improve planning, monitoring, stakeholder engagement, assurance, performance measurement and evaluation.
Journal article

Strengthening the IPS workforce

James Whiting, Eóin Killackey
This article describes the development of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Workforce Development Framework. The framework aims to address challenges in IPS workforce availability, capacity, and capability in headspace centres across Australia, with the goal of improving vocational recovery outcomes for young people with mental ill-health.
Journal article

It affects everything: a national study exploring racism and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Kirsten Howard, Kate Anderson
This Indigenous-led analysis describes the ways racism disrupts the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. The study underscores the need to move beyond individualised health models toward decolonial systems of care grounded in self-determination, truth-telling and structural change.
Fact sheet

Keeping truth-telling safe


This fact sheet outlines important safety considerations for truth-tellers, organisers and listeners, to help communities create truth-telling spaces that are safe, respectful and supportive for everyone. It describes what truth-telling is, why planning for safety is important and the key principles of safe truth-telling.
Briefing paper

Protecting integrity: fixing funding, appointments and oversight


Australia’s integrity agencies can only hold power to account when they are independent in practice, not just in law. This paper argues that integrity agency independence depends on three institutional levers: secure funding, merit-based appointments and robust oversight. It outlines reforms to strengthen these levers and better secure the independence of Australia’s core integrity agencies.
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