In September 2022, the Federal Home Affairs Minister, Clare O'Neil, announced three eminent persons would lead a comprehensive review of Australia's migration system to ensure it better meets existing challenges and sets a clear direction for the coming decades. This report sets out the findings from the review.

This report considers the security industry and the role it could play in protecting Australia's homeland security. The paper suggests five measures that would allow public and private sector customers access to a wider spectrum of advanced security capability and leverage leading edge security thinking from industry and the research community.

The essential features of the current Defence organisation were established over 30 years ago in peacetime. Today, in a period of high operational activity, this report finds an organisation struggling to deliver administratively when its main focus is on supporting military operations in nine major deployments around the world. The Defence organisation has undoubtedly made...