This white paper examines how leading organisations are embedding artificial intelligence (AI) across customer experience, operations, R&D, strategic planning and talent. Drawing on insights from more than 450 executives worldwide, it highlights a shift from isolated use cases to connected systems, from episodic initiatives to continuous processes and from task automation to human value creation.

Too often, government consultation is treated as a box-ticking exercise – yet it sits at the heart of legitimacy, accountability and public trust. This paper shows how public consultation integrity can deliver better decisions and reduce the disproportionate influence of vested interests, but only when consultation is genuine, accessible and done early – before outcomes...

This paper argues that current neuroinclusion efforts in education, employment and public policy remain dominated by compliance‑led, deficit‑oriented models that position professionals as experts ‘knowing for’ neurodivergent people. It reconceptualises neuroinclusion as a participatory, imaginative practice where lived experience guides co‑designed policy, enabling more adaptive, just and future‑focused institutions.

A report on Australian state and federal government assistance to producers and major users of fossil fuels in 2025–26. It finds growth in fossil fuel subsidies is driven by the federal government’s Fuel Tax Credit Scheme. The growth of this scheme is expected to outstrip spending on a range of social services.

The report presents state and territory performance results for public hospital capacity, emergency department waiting times and planned surgery waiting times; as well as public hospital expenditure. The report shows Australia’s public hospitals are continuing to struggle under sustained pressure. Overall performance remains significantly worse than it was ten years ago.