Only 527 of around 1,630 potential organ donors became donors in 2024 due to medical and logistic reasons. With 1,800 Australians currently on the transplant waitlist, this report highlights the critical need to increase the consent rate for organ donation to meet the demand for transplants.

Analysis of how a nuclear pathway could impact national efforts to reduce emissions shows the deployment of nuclear in Australia’s grid could add at least 2 billion tonnes to national emissions. The report finds a nuclear pathway could see Australia miss the legislated emissions reduction target for 2030.

This paper investigates an underexplored trade-off in policy design: how measures encouraging work among the older population can unintentionally impact their offspring’s fertility rates. It finds that the unintended impact on the birth rate is comparable to that observed with the introduction of paid parental leave policies.

This audit was undertaken to determine whether the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has effective arrangements to support the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). The report found that partly effective arrangements were in place and made seven recommendations relating to AI governance, risk management, evaluation and information management. The ATO agreed to all recommendations.

A scorecard assessing the effectiveness of government commitments to the charity sector. It captures insights into the sector’s confidence, government policy successes and areas requiring improvement. It reveals significant failures, providing an adverse assessment on the federal government’s failure to ease the burden on organisations that are delivering urgent cost of living help.