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Discussion paper

Safe and responsible AI in Australia: discussion paper


This paper focuses on governance mechanisms to ensure AI is used safely and responsibly. These mechanisms can include regulations, standards, tools, frameworks, principles and business practices. It aims to identify potential gaps in the existing domestic governance landscape and any possible additional AI governance mechanisms to support the development and adoption of AI. Feedback on...
Report

The results are in: the UK's four-day week pilot

Juliet Schor, Wen Fan, Orla Kelly, Guolin Gu, David Frayne, Brendan Burchell, Niamh Bridson Hubbard, Jon White, Daiga Kamarāde, Francisca Mullens

This report details the full findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022.
Report

Measuring what matters: Australia’s first wellbeing framework


This statement is the first iteration of Australia's national wellbeing framework. The framework aims to help the Australian government to better understand what matters most to Australians — to build a healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous Australia for everyone. The framework has been developed through extensive research and consultation to identify the best available...
Report

Poverty in Australia 2023: who is affected


This report uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to identify the groups facing the highest risk of poverty and the groups of people most likely to be living in poverty.
Briefing paper

The creative economy in Australia: what Census 2021 tells us


This briefing paper presents an overview of cultural and creative activity in Australia, drawing on custom tables of employment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ five-yearly Census of Australian Population and Housing.
Report

The value of craft skills to the future of making in Australia


This report draws upon quantitative and qualitative findings from a five-year, mixed-methods, Australian Research Council–funded research project, that aimed to identify ways in which the craft skills required to sustain and grow future making can be maintained and extended.
Report

Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme: report


The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was established in August 2022, with Catherine Holmes AC SC appointed Royal Commissioner. This final report from the Commissioner makes 57 recommendations which will have significant implications from both a policy and service delivery perspective.
Report

The state of AI governance in Australia


While the regulatory environment related to AI systems is evolving, an organisation that uses or relies on an AI system will generally be responsible if it causes harm. This report argues that corporate leaders need to rapidly appreciate their existing legal duties and emerging responsibilities regarding AI.
Report

You win some, you lose more: online gambling and its impacts on those experiencing gambling harm


Australians outspend the citizens of every other country on online gambling. This inquiry considered whether the current regulatory framework for online gambling and gambling advertising in Australia is fit for purpose and meeting community expectations. The Committee asserts that Australian culture will be diminished if sport was to be so captured by gambling revenue that...
Report

The worsening rental crisis in Australia: interim report


The crisis of unaffordable, unavailable and unsuitable rental housing in Australia is the result of a complex set of drivers. This interim report is centred on the lived experience of renters to identify the issues people encounter throughout their rental journey, from finding to securing and maintaining a lease on a place they can call...