This paper highlights the important relationship between microeconomic conditions and macroeconomic performance, and how business conditions flow on to affect overall economic performance. Twelve key metrics are established to develop an overall ease of doing business score. The twelve metrics are state government policies or state-level indicators that influence or determine a business’ ability to...

This paper addresses the strategic challenges influencing Australia's defence and security needs and argues that countering a worsening national security outlook by strengthening the Australian Defence Force and building international alliances should be an urgent priority for government.

This paper highlights the Federal Government's intention to enshrine Nature Positive principles into our domestic legal system. Nature Positive includes a voluntary commitment to protect and conserve 30 per cent of Australia's land and oceans by 2030 - a commitment proposed by international conservation groups but not rising from any international agreement. There are two...

The authors of this paper argue that there are clear limits to what 'levelised cost of energy' (LCOE) can be used for when analysing energy policy. Such estimates are prone to bias, omit key costs and cannot be used to assess the merits of projects that have vastly different values. They suggest that Australia needs...

This research note measures the number of staff and the and staffing costs of people employed within Australian federal regulatory bodies and agencies.