The report draws on insights of successfully implemented child and youth wellbeing strategies – offering lessons to strengthen policy and ensure more effective approaches to improve wellbeing in children and young people. It identifies three key ways that strategies have improved government ways of working and offers three recommendations for how government policy can enhance...

Legal professional privilege (LPP) has a fundamental role in the Australian legal system. To inform a review in considering LPP in the context of investigations undertaken by Commonwealth agencies, this discussion paper outlines the context and purpose of the review and the key issues identified by stakeholders in the initial phase of work.

This paper discusses the background to the 2022 election, the events of the campaign and the Australian Electoral Commission’s administration of the election. It provides an overview of results in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The paper concludes with data on parties’ and candidates’ declared donations and expenditure leading up to the election...

The Bill's purpose is to establish a Commission to inquire into and make recommendations to Parliament on historical and ongoing injustices against First Peoples by the Commonwealth, their impact, and appropriate means of acknowledgement and redress. It responds to the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s call for a Makarrata Commission, but may differ from what...

An evaluation of the Harvest Trail Services (HTS) program which aimed to address harvest employers’ recruitment needs, improve community understanding of the legal requirements for fair and safe harvest work and increase the number of Australians employed in harvest work.