Publications

Empowering Young Minds

A 2024 report takes a deep dive into the state of children and young people's education and learning in Australia – what's working and what isn't.

Certify Hope - Rights from the Start

This policy brief sheds light on the scale of delayed birth registration in Australia, the obstacles to achieving universal birth registration and its repercussions, the groups most affected and our key recommendations.

Flood Response and Recovery in Fitzroy Crossing

A Needs Assessment report revealing the key impacts of the January 2023 floods on children and their families in Fitzroy Crossing. This report provides a roadmap to improve disaster resilience and response in the future.

Fitzroy Crossing Policy Brief

This policy brief brings together the Fitzroy Crossing Needs Assessment with UNICEF Australia's expertise to provide key recommendations.

National Working Families Report 2024

A survey by Parents at Work, UNICEF Australia, and their partners measures the impact of changing workplace trends on more than 6,200 of Australia’s working parents and carers. The findings aim to shape family-friendly workplace policies and practices across Australia.

We deserve to live in a thriving world – Child Centred Indicators for Climate Change

In a world-first project, UNICEF Australia partnered with the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University to develop a practical tool to measure how climate change affects children and young people.

The Climate Future Children Want – Child-Centred Indicators for Climate Change

A youth-friendly version of the Child Centred Indicators for Climate Change report.

Protecting children in the online world

A 2024 UNICEF Australia report on reshaping the digital world for Aussie kids.

UNICEF Australia Domestic Impact Report 2023

UNICEF Australia's Impact Report tells the story of how our work, in collaboration with many others and fuelled by the generosity of our supporters, made a difference in 2023.

The Impact of Disasters on Children and Young People

A report by Deloitte Access Economics for UNICEF Australia looks at the impact and economic cost of climate disasters on children and young people in Australia. We would also like to thank Islamic Relief Australia for their collaboration in supporting this report.

Policy Brief - The Impact of Disasters on Children and Young People

A cost benefit analysis - a policy brief by UNICEF Australia that explores the impact of climate disasters on children and young people.

Healthy children, healthy futures

A report on the physical and mental health of Australian children.

Children's Wellbeing Index

A report on how the wellbeing of Australian children is faring and how that is changing over time.

2022 Flood Response and Recovery

Children's Needs Assessment

Better World Youth Summit Communique

The Better World Youth Summit invited 150 Year 10 students to share their perspectives on what would make a better world for Australian children.

Innocenti Report Card 17

Places and Spaces - Environments and children's wellbeing

After the Disaster

After the Disaster - Recovery for Australia's Children

Bridging the work and family divide

Understanding the benefits of family friendly workplaces

Bushfire Recovery

The Children’s Voices

Children's Voices in a Changing World

Children’s Report 2021

Children’s Voices in a Changing World

UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador Report 2021

Kids at the Crossroads

Evidence and policy to mitigate the effects of COVID-19

“Swimming with Sandbags”

The views and experiences of young people in Australia five months into the COVID-19 pandemic

Innocenti Report Card 16

Worlds of Influence: understanding what shapes child wellbeing in high-income countries

Generation Drought

The NSW Youth Summit on living with drought report (2020)

Australian Children and Young People's Knowledge Acceleration Hub

(2020) (external website)

The State of the World’s Children

Children, food and nutrition - Growing well in a changing world (2019)

State of the World's Children On My Mind

Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health (2021)

Beyond Survival

Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh want to learn (2019)

Are the world's richest countries family-friendly?

(2019)

A Climate for Change

Young Ambassadors Report (2019)

The Drought Report

In their own words: the hidden impact of drought on children and young people (2019)

The Children’s Report

Australia’s NGO coalition report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2018)

Report Card 15 (2018)

CRC25: Australian Child Rights Progress Report

(2016)