This report provides a comprehensive overview of tax reform trends, offering cross-country comparisons and tracking policy developments over time. This edition describes tax reforms implemented in 2024 across 86 jurisdictions, including all OECD countries. It finds that governments increasingly implemented reforms to raise revenues for specific spending needs – most notably linked to population ageing.

This report synthesises discussions from the Digital Childhoods Summit, held in Canberra in June 2025. The summit aimed to identify key priorities for practice and policy to improve digital childhoods in Australia. It was organised around four key themes, each recognised as timely and significant issues affecting children, families, educators, industry and government.

In Australia, victim-survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) are increasingly using closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems. This paper presents the findings from a world-first study into how victim survivors of DFV experience the use of CCTV systems. The findings demonstrate that CCTV can have beneficial impacts on the wellbeing of victim-survivors but also carries risks.

This report sets outs voluntary assisted dying activity in Victoria, Australia, from 2024 to 2025. It finds the objective to provide safe access to voluntary assisted dying was realised over the past 12 months. However, barriers to timely access and concerns around program sustainability remain. Addressing these matters is essential to realising compassionate end-of-life care.

This paper finds that Australian Government responses to challenges such as misinformation, online harms, privacy and hate speech are increasingly disproportionate and, in some cases, ineffective. It proposes that recent Australian laws risk undermining fundamental freedoms and weakening the principles that underpin a democratic society.