Implementing an alliance governance framework in health care defines how partners collaborate, communicate, co-commission and co-ordinate mutually agreed goals and outputs. Principles which enable this include trust and commitment among the partners, flexibility and valuing each partner’s organisational reality. This evidence brief reports on the successful implementation of this approach in primary health care in...

As oceans heat up, it is predicted that Australians will experience fewer cyclones but they will be more extreme. In 2025, Tropical Cyclone Alfred caused torrential rains, coastal flooding and powerful winds across the country. This report asserts the intensity and devastation of this event was fuelled by climate pollution. It calls for rapidly cutting...

This report explores the concept of merit in recruitment practices in a modern public sector context, drawing on interviews from three different jurisdictions in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It outlines a set of key actions and details the latest thinking and practice for governments to consider in their respective recruitment and selection processes.

This statistical report describes the 9,101 alleged sexual offenders proceeded against by police in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory in 2022–23. The offenders were proceeded against for offences involving a total of 8,873 identified victims.

Queensland marked 10 years as an liquid natural gas (LNG) exporter in January 2025 and has emerged as a key supplier of LNG, primarily to China. Besides boosting Australia’s energy trade with Asia’s largest economy, the industry has left a legacy of higher domestic gas prices, weaker domestic gas demand, lower than expected state royalty...