Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


MC23: Musicians' Census 2023 · 27 March 2024 English

Gender inequity is still a prominent, alarming issue in the music industry, with female musicians facing much higher levels of discrimination, sexual harassment, financial challenges, and structural barriers to career …


ASLCG: Australian Security Leaders Climate Group · 2 May 2024 English

ASLCG was formed in 2021 by a group of senior former military and intelligence leaders concerned that the security implications of climate change were not understood or addressed by governments. …


DLUHC: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · 25 March 2024 English

Across the globe many democracies are facing internal fragmentation and polarisation as well as domestic and cross-border political, economic and social challenges. Disillusionment with democracy, the emergence and growth of …


The White House · 26 February 2024 English

President Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy outlines two fundamental shifts: the need to both rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace and realign incentives to favor long-term cybersecurity investments. In this report, …


ANROWS: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety · 29 April 2024 English

Workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment (WTFSH) involves unwelcome and/or threatening sexual conduct using mobile, online and other digital technologies in a workplace context. While much is known about the extent of …


Nuffield Trust · 18 April 2024 English

Following on from our 2022 report looking at the health landscape six years on from Brexit, this report aims to look deeper at key trends we identified in the supply …


Autonomy · 21 February 2024 English

One year on from the results of the world’s biggest ever four-day working week pilot which took place in the UK in 2022, companies that took part have reported significant …


FWD.us · 14 February 2024 English

New analysis finds that TPS helps protect hundreds of thousands of families while also filling worker shortage gaps in the U.S. workforce. The Biden administration should further expand TPS to …


Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry · 2 May 2024 English

In the aftermath of the October 7 war crimes committed by Hamas, the world has seen the worst wave of antisemitic incidents since the end of the Second World War. …


Future of Church Safeguarding · 21 February 2024 English

Professor Jay was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York in July 2023 to independently: provide options and recommendations for how a new independent safeguarding and …


ANROWS: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety · 23 April 2024 English

This report is the second publication from the research project “An exploration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healing programs that respond to domestic and family violence and sexual assault”. …


Humanitarian Outcomes · 27 March 2024 English

Since the beginning of the current conflict, precipitated by the attack on Israel by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and followed by a major military offensive by Israel, humanitarian aid …


OHE: Office of Health Economics · 22 April 2024 English

Adult vaccines can return up to 19 times their initial investment to society, when their significant benefits beyond the healthcare system are monetised. This report demonstrates the health and socioeconomic …


FOEI: Friends of the Earth International · 4 April 2024 English

This report examines U.S. bank financing of meat, dairy, and feed corporations and the sizable climate impact of that financing. As the climate crisis has intensified, U.S. banks have come …


Constitution Unit · 21 March 2024 English

This report comes at an important juncture, when public trust in politicians has fallen to an all time low. There is a wealth of evidence from survey data about the …


The White House · 17 January 2024 English

Since the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability in 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration has fortified its commitment to secure the open-source software ecosystem. In March 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration released the …


Google (United States) · 25 April 2024 English

Generative AI is one of the rare technologies powerful enough to accelerate overall economic growth---what economists call a “general-purpose technology.” These innovations have the potential to positively transform economies and …


Creative Australia · 9 April 2024 English

Australia is host to a wide range of music festivals which play an important role in Australia’s live music sector and provide positive benefits to our society and our economy. …


WWA: World Weather Attribution · 22 February 2024 English

During the early days of February 2024, a low-pressure system formed along the coast of central Chile, a well-known phenomenon affecting the western coast of subtropical South America, known as …


GEM: Global Energy Monitor · 27 March 2024 English

Globally last year, oil and gas producers sanctioned and discovered the equivalent of all the proven oil reserves in Europe. They aim to quadruple the amount sanctioned by the end …