In 2024, more than 17,500 children aged 8-12 years across South Australia took part in the annual Commissioner’s Student Voice Postcards initiative. Their responses provide clear insight into their lives, including the conditions which shape them. They also expose patterns of systemic challenges that must be addressed.

Effective workplace supports can help to address the high social and economic costs of intimate partner violence (IPV) to individuals, businesses and societies. This policy paper highlights steps that employers and governments are taking to strengthen workplace approaches to IPV, especially public policy measures across OECD countries to encourage an effective workplace response.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has grown too big too fast, and its future is now at stake. This report shows how the NDIS can be saved by reining in costs. This blueprint to rebalance disability services would reduce NDIS payments by about $12 billion over the next 10 years and create further savings...

The reliance on information technology in modern government has dramatically increased the risk of cyber security incidents. This report presents analysis of the New South Wales (NSW) Cyber Security Policy compliance data and insights into the cyber security environment. The report is a resource for the public sector, providing insights for strengthening cyber resilience.

Despite decades of reforms and targeted initiatives, people with intellectual disabilities continue to experience barriers to securing and sustaining employment, particularly in the open or 'mainstream' labour market. This report focuses on the concept of meaningful employment which shifts attention away from the formal characteristics of a workplace as either mainstream or non-mainstream, instead asking...