In Australia, consumer safety is protected through a comprehensive framework of voluntary and mandatory standards. This report explores the vital role these standards play in supporting product safety across the country. It outlines how Australian businesses can navigate an evolving product safety landscape shaped by legal responsibilities, consumer expectations and emerging risks.

Meaningful citizen participation in policymaking is critical. This report identifies systemic challenges for citizen participation facing citizens, elected representatives, civil servants and civil society. It advocates for a strategic and targeted approach to citizen participation; lowering barriers to enable more inclusive participation; building capacity among both civil servants and citizens; and ensuring impact and accountability.

The variety of policy problems, solutions and actors in the housing policy space makes organising housing policy challenging. This research explores how changes to government administrative structures and processes affect housing policy in Australia. It outlines what can be done to reduce some of the negative impacts of these changes.

This report examines cross-jurisdictional health reform, collaboration and government consultation with remote, rural and regional communities in New South Wales. It finds that rural and remote primary care is in crisis and proposes a pathway forward to facilitate reform. The report presents 12 findings and 18 recommendations.

Measuring What Matters (MWM) is a national wellbeing framework intended to track Australia’s progress that extends beyond purely economic measures. This audit finds the design and implementation of the MWM framework by the Department of the Treasury largely effective. Two recommendations made by the audit to the Department were both accepted.