This paper investigates employment transitions for humanitarian migrants and offers insights on the patterns and key drivers of the transition from income support payments to paid employment as a main income source. It makes findings in areas such as participation in English language study, overseas qualifications and early engagement in other studies or job training.

Specialised services and responses play a critical role in maintaining and strengthening Australia’s multicultural society. Too often, differences in access and outcomes persist for people from migrant and refugee backgrounds. These disparities are magnified by service responses that inadequately meet their needs and preferences. This policy brief explores specialised services and initiatives for a multicultural...

Episodes over the past decade demonstrate how economic levers are being used to impose costs and reshape incentives without crossing traditional thresholds of conflict. This report argues for strengthening the connective tissue between policy, intelligence, economic and security functions so that information flows more freely, preparedness is built collectively and joint capabilities can withstand pressure.

This report focuses on changes in the mode of attendance among Australian domestic undergraduate students over the past four years, with a focus on the 2024 period. It explored whether students were studying on-campus (internal), online (external), or through a mix of both (multi-modal), and how this varied across equity groups.

The study provides an assessment of the extent to which Australian street-level drug law enforcement approaches are perceived as procedurally just by people who use illicit drugs, to benchmark procedural justice levels and to identify predictors of and methods to enhance procedural justice. It outlines avenues to improve the procedural justice in Australia.