This report focuses on the innovative ways in which local government can support housing delivery. Specifically, it addresses how local governments can intervene to improve housing production and supply, while also improving the sustainability and quality of housing within their jurisdictions. It provides policy insights for local government interventions to improve housing outcomes.

Australia’s reliance on incarceration for a wide range of offences has come at a significant financial cost to taxpayers while failing to improve community safety. This report outlines the cost of prisons, trends in incarnation, the incarceration of non-violent offenders and recommendations for reform. It finds the reliance on incarcerating non-violent offenders is straining prison...

This resource summarises the evidence about the experiences of parents who were adopted as children. It discusses their experiences of parenthood and the impacts of parenthood on their identity, wellbeing and relationships with others. The paper also provides some considerations for practitioners and other professionals working with adult adoptee parents and their families.

This report summarises how to assess and compare dynamic capabilities across city governments, provides an assessment of dynamic capabilities in a selected sample of cities, and sets out future work that will explore how to create an index that can be scaled and used to effectively build capabilities, positively transforming cities and creating better lives...

This review is part of the Australian Government's work in conducting reviews of laws to assess how they apply to artificial intelligence (AI) use. This report outlines that the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), when combined with other laws, can generally handle challenges that come with AI products and services. It makes six findings.