This report highlights significant modern slavery risks faced by temporary migrant workers in agriculture, horticulture and meat processing in rural and regional NSW. The modern slavery risks identified include debt bondage, deceptive recruiting, forced labour and, in extreme cases, servitude, sexual servitude and even human trafficking.

This review sought to identify the barriers currently impacting housing supply in New South Wales and the actions needed to address them. The report finds that the cost of building homes has increased significantly since 2018, with barriers including high construction and borrowing costs, capacity constraints in the construction sector, and bottlenecks in the development...

Adopting Industry 4.0 technologies has wide-reaching benefits for NSW’s manufacturing sector, but small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often get left behind in their ability to benefit from them. This Policy Insights Paper outlines key policy opportunities to enhance the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in NSW manufacturing.

This consultation draft seeks public input on the proposed next stage of New South Wales' Plastics program and recommends ways to reduce single-use, unnecessary and problematic plastic items and materials.

This report investigates the impact of rising cost of living on people living in poverty and in low-income households across NSW. This year, the research shone a spotlight on the impact of these pressures on households with children. The findings show little improvement in the capacity of low-income households to meet their basic needs, as...