Schools across Australia are experiencing significant staffing pressures, with teacher shortages now widely recognised as a systemic and enduring issue. This report examines the lived experiences of teachers during unprecedented shortages, focusing on those who remain in hard-to-staff Australian schools and how systems can better support retention.

Despite the need to reduce gas use in Australia, millions are spent each year on gas networks. This report develops a framework to assess proposals to shrink the gas network through electrification, called strategic decommissioning or network pruning. It proposes changes governments can make to avoid further spending on gas networks.

This report explores attitudes towards gas network pruning (strategic decommissioning). It focuses on Australian households facing barriers to electrification and finds generally positive attitudes to the idea of repurposing gas pipeline expenditure for local area electrification. The report recommends governments and regulators develop and implement pruning, prioritising fully funded upgrades for low-income households.

Modern slavery is a serious, pervasive and largely hidden human rights and safety issue. This report was commissioned to understand opportunities to improve Australia’s criminal justice response to modern slavery. The report identifies ongoing gaps in Australia’s criminal justice response to modern slavery that are preventing some victims and survivors from accessing justice and remedy.

This report outlines a package of policy reforms to radically speed up the renewable energy transition in Australia. It sets out a pathway to accelerating the economy’s ability to build energy infrastructure, providing opportunities for training and employment, better targeted community engagement, and greater certainty for communities hosting infrastructure projects. Four key reform areas are...