On 29 January 2025, under Standing Order 25(2)(a)(v), the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee agreed to inquire into the quality of governance at Australian higher education ...

On 26 March 2024, the Senate referred an inquiry into Excess Mortality to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 August 2024. Further detail about the scope of ...

4.1Australian households are facing significant cost of living pressures on all fronts. Compounding many Australians struggling with their energy bills, as set out in the previous chapter, the ...

This chapter explores the opportunities and challenges facing Australian agriculture in Southeast Asia. It outlines findings of the Moore report, the Australian Government’s response to it, and ...

Although data sources show income inequality in Australia has fallen slightly in recent years, wealth is distributed much less equally than income among Australian households. Australia’s highly ...

Why getting legal advice matters. Getting free legal advice. Finding the right lawyer to help you and why that can be hard. Choosing between redress or a civil claim. Court cases that got blocked ...

Senate standing order 23(3)(c) requires the committee to scrutinise each instrument as to whether it makes rights, liberties, obligations or interests unduly dependent on insufficiently defined ...

Access to affordable and safe housing is essential to people’s health and wellbeing. Housing also forms a significant part of the economy. It is central to economic participation and productivity and ...

On 9 April 2024, the House Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training adopted an inquiry into the digital transformation of workplaces following a referral from the Minister for ...

Amid a mounting arms race, including missile proliferation, in a fraught security and geopolitical environment in the Asia-Pacific region, the release by Japan’s Cabinet on 16 December 2022 of its 3 ...

In 2024, 2 states and 2 territories signed the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement, 2025–2034 (the first agreement), committing to a replacement education agreement for the expired 2018 National ...

In November 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine sought to create separate Jewish and Arab states. The resolution led to conflict between Arab and Jewish groups, which, following the ...