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Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group: interim report |
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (Australia)24 Apr 2024 | Report | Built environment, Economics The Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group was established in February 2023 and provides advice to the Australian government on the transition to a more circular economy. This interim report summarises the preliminary advice of the Advisory Group from 2023, covering the topics of national policy, economics and investment settings, net zero, the built environment, and design and consumption of products. |
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Anglicare Australia rental affordability snapshot: national report 2024 |
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Anglicare Australia23 Apr 2024 | Report | Economics Anglicare Australia's 2024 Rental Affordability Snapshot surveyed rental listings across Australia and found that affordability has crashed to record lows. |
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Global leadership in an age of turbulence |
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University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership22 Apr 2024 | Report | Economics, Government In response to the challenges faced by society and those in positions of leadership, CISL convened a multi-sectoral Global Leadership Summit in February 2024. Through discussions ranging across geopolitics, global governance, domestic politics, economics, finance and technology, the summit sought to answer the question - what leadership is needed now, and from whom? This report provides a summary of the main insights from the summit. |
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Untapped: collective intelligence for climate action |
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United Nations Development Programme, Nesta22 Apr 2024 | Report | Environment, Social issues Making decisions for climate policy and action can be fraught and divisive, and compounded by the spread of mis- and disinformation. This research finds that in order for collective intelligence initiatives to have impact, three factors are critical - sustaining volunteer participation, ensuring citizen-generated data fills known evidence gaps, and getting policy-makers to act on the basis of new data. |
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COVID-19 Royal Commission |
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Parliament of Australia19 Apr 2024 | Report | Health The primary recommendation from this inquiry is for the Australian government to establish a Royal Commission to examine the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequential impacts on the Australian community. |
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Police training in responding to family, domestic and sexual violence |
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Australian Institute of Criminology18 Apr 2024 | Report | Justice Police in Australia are seeing increased reporting of family, domestic and sexual violence, while facing greater pressure to secure positive outcomes for victims. This study reviews published Australian and international research on police training in responding to family, domestic and sexual violence. |
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Inequality in Australia 2024: who is affected and how |
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Australian Council of Social Service, University of New South Wales18 Apr 2024 | Report | Economics, Social issues This report examines the latest available data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (for 2019-20, adjusting forward to 2022-23 for wealth) to identify who stands where on the income and wealth ladders and the main causes of income and wealth inequality. |
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A duty of care in Australia’s Online Safety Act: policy briefing |
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Reset Australia17 Apr 2024 | Briefing paper | Communications This policy briefing reflects discussions held at a roundtable of 21 experts from academia and civil society in March 2024, where participants explored the opportunities and challenges of introducing a duty of care into Australia’s Online Safety Act. This briefing paper presents an overview of the discussion. |
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National Defence Strategy 2024 |
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Government of Australia17 Apr 2024 | Strategy | Government, National security Developed in response to last year’s Defence Strategic Review, the 2024 National Defence Strategy outlines the Australian Government’s strategic framework to guide the significant and urgent changes required to address Australia’s challenging strategic circumstances. Together, the strategy and 2024 Integrated Investment Program provide a blueprint to deliver an ambitious transformation of the Australian Defence Force. |
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Reclaiming leadership: Australia and the global critical minerals race |
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute17 Apr 2024 | Report | Economics Australia is endowed with rich economic geology, and is an acknowledged leader in mineral production, in minerals governance, and in garnering broad economic benefits from its large mining and processing sector. This report is intended to provide the government with a road map to ‘step up’ to (re)activate Australia’s mineral leadership. |
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What can improve democracy? |
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Pew Research Center13 Apr 2024 | Report | Government Pew Research Center surveys have long found that people in many countries are dissatisfied with their democracy and want major changes to their political systems. This report outlines the findings from more than 30,000 respondents in 24 countries who answered an open-ended question - what do you think would help improve the way democracy in your country is working? |
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Towards a renewable energy superpower |
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Institute for Sustainable Futures5 Apr 2024 | Report | Built environment, Economics This report brings to light major industry opportunities for Australia in the global clean energy sector, based on a synthesis of existing studies and targeted interviews. |
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Explaining transgender policy change: policy momentum in Canada and Australia |
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Governance1 Apr 2024 | Journal article | Justice, Social issues This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework called 'policy momentum' to explain the cross-national timing of human rights protections for transgender people in Western democracies. |
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