The annual report assesses the Commonwealth’s delivery against actions outlined in the 2025 implementation plan. It highlights what the Commonwealth delivered in 2025 and outlines implementation priorities for 2026 to contribute to achieving the outcomes of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. The report includes case studies on outstanding programs, services and initiatives.

Australia's mental health system is failing those most in need – not because of neglect or underfunding, but because of overdiagnosis and misallocation, this report warns. The report shows that programs designed to expand access to care have created a system that treats ordinary distress as pathology. It calls for reform built on five key...

This paper presents opportunities to upgrade democracy through setting out a practical route to detoxify one of the most polarised policy issues – immigration. The paper calls for the United Kingdom Government to commission a national deliberative process – a citizens’ assembly – on earned settlement, and to pilot place-based deliberative processes on integration and...

A report from an inquiry into the procurement process conducted by the Attorney-General’s department to deliver new child sexual abuse-related national services. These procurements arose from the recommendations of the 2017 Royal Commission into Institutional Reponses to Child Sexual Abuse. The report found the length of time taken to progress these procurements was deeply concerning.

An examination and recommendations about the offence of non-fatal strangulation in a domestic setting in section 315A of the Criminal Code (Qld), and applicable procedural rules and practices. The report makes a compelling case to reform Queensland’s response to non-fatal strangulation and charts a clear program of education, accountability and support. It makes 18 recommendations.