The report provides up-to-date monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies across 54 countries from across the world, including a chapter on Australia. This year’s edition of the report focuses on the interlinkages between trade, agriculture and the environment. It finds that integrating environmental objectives into trade policies in agriculture and food presents opportunities and challenges.

This report examines the economic costs of sexual violence in Australia. Using a lifetime and systems-based approach, it shows that the greatest costs arise not from immediate responses but from the compounding effects of untreated trauma, chronic health conditions, reduced workforce participation and sustained demand on health, justice, and social services.

The report provides a detailed snapshot of foundation skills proficiency – literacy, numeracy and digital capability – among Australian adults who engage with government-funded programs and vocational education and training, with a particular focus on four priority groups: women, First Nations people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and people living with disability.

This report contains six case studies from Australia and around the world that are examples of evidence-based approaches to reforming child justice systems. It shows how primary prevention, early intervention, integrated services and therapeutic community-based approaches that emphasise family and cultural connections can transform outcomes for children.

This second yearly report to Parliament provides 30 recommendations for priority activities over the next 12 months to work towards achieving the outcomes of the National plan to end violence against women and children 2022-2032. The report contains case studies of work being done that we must learn from, share and scale to be able...