Climate change already threatens many people’s greatest asset, their home. This report identifies the suburbs and electorates across Australia where households and businesses face the most acute risk from climate-fuelled extreme weather events in 2025, and reveals the types of hazards that are driving this escalating risk.

This report presents the findings of a policy stocktake that analysed whether the policies, plans and strategies for Australia’s disaster and emergency management, disaster response and recovery, counterterrorism and countering violent extremism efforts take into account the integrated issues of disaster response, disinformation and potential for extremist and malign actor exploitation of natural disasters.

The report proposes 37 practical, feasible, impactful and evidence-based reform opportunities to improve trust and confidence in the Federal Parliament. It encourages parliamentarians to use available mechanisms to consider these reform opportunities further and build a consensus about the highest priority reforms.

An inquiry into the current regression of the Closing the Gap targets on the rates of suicide, the number of children in out-of-home care, adult incarceration and the number of children commencing school who are developmentally on track. This interim report considers some of the themes identified in the evidence received so far and makes...

This report provides a structured approach for governments at all levels to develop and strengthen policies to build age-inclusive cities. It makes recommendations around inclusive urban planning, age-targeted housing solutions, tailored services and job opportunities, producing age-specific data, and sharing good practices through multi-city collaborations.