New South Wales
Report
Options paper: incentivising tradeswork and shiftwork post COVID-19
This report examines the experience of the trades and shift-work segments of the workforce during COVID-19, and outlines a policy agenda that will provide support for these professions so that they remain an attractive career in future.
Report
Productivity Commission white paper 2021
This document outlines a new productivity reform agenda for New South Wales that could lift productivity growth and boost real wages, without raising the tax burden.
Report
1200 bridges too far: off-farm water recovery spending in the Murray Darling Basin
This report outlines how money originally allocated to ensure a healthy Murray-Darling Basin is now earmarked to be spent on seemingly unrelated infrastructure in New South Wales. Instead of recovering 450GL promised to the environment in downstream states, this money may now flow to a range of questionable projects, including upgrading 1200 bridges in irrigation...
Briefing paper
Understanding the decline in Aboriginal young people in custody in NSW from 2015 to 2019
This paper examines the recent downward trend of young Aboriginal people being imprisoned in New South Wales.
Report
Mind the gaps: unused capacity and unfunded rehabilitation in Upper Hunter coal mines
The Australia Institute has called for a moratorium on new coal mines in NSW. The current gap in production between approved limits and actual yearly production shows that current operations are either unable or unwilling to meet production limits.