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​Research papers explore issues of interest to parliament.

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Featured data briefs

​Data briefs provide interactive visualisations of electorate data.​

Raised hands in a classroom

Energy regulation in transition

​​ This paper explores how the energy transition, emerging energy technologies, products, and services, and changing societal expectations are challenging the market structures and competitive market model of regulation for the NSW electricity sector operating within the National Electricity Market.

Public and private schools

This data brief shows the number of schools, primary students, secondary students and teachers in each NSW electorate for the 3 school sectors, Catholic, independent and public, from 2009 to 2023.

 



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Illicit drug policy:
developments since the 2020 Ice inquiry report

In July 2024 the NSW Government announced that it would hold a drug summit in Sydney and regional NSW. The purpose of this paper​ is to provide an update on key policy developments since the report of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug Ice in January 2020.
​​​Socio-economic disadvantage
Explore socio-economic disadvantage in NSW electorates, based on 2021 census data. This data brief provides electorate-level data from the Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), as well as some of the key underlying census variables.

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