This report highlights the challenges and poorer outcomes for South Australian children experiencing systemic disadvantage. It makes recommendations for change, including creating a Minister for Children and Young People and introducing new legislation covering human rights, the impact of decisions on future generations and child poverty.

One in three school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths. The opportunity to lift maths achievement starts in primary schools. This report presents five recommendations to show how governments can turn this around.

The report examines the five key reforms the federal government has used to make a difference to wages growth. It finds that workers would be $8,700 worse off if Peter Dutton had achieved his goal of blocking major reforms to get wages moving. The report provides a summary of the major parties’ policies on wages...

Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely used chemicals that do not readily break down in the environment. Regulators face considerable challenges in determining which PFAS warrant regulation. This paper considers case studies of how different jurisdictions have approached these challenges, which PFAS they have chosen to regulate, and current debates that are shaping these...

This report considers why wages growth in Australia has been so low over recent years, despite a tight labour market and a brief surge in inflation. It documents how workers have lost power in the past two decades, with most changes in the economy and many in government policy taking away workers’ bargaining power, although...