In the past two decades, drones have transformed from niche military tools into widely available 'commercial off-the-shelf' technologies. The combination of easy accessibility and payload potential, and the limitations of domestic counter-drone systems, presents a growing challenge. This policy brief provides three recommendations to address this vulnerability.

The sovereign citizen movement has grown beyond a nuisance and into an escalating national security challenge for many countries. This policy brief outlines the problem, what should be done, and the background landscape – including understanding the national security risks and harms. The brief outlines three policy recommendations to address the transnational dimensions of the...

Democratic erosion is the incremental and multifaceted deterioration in the freedoms, guarantees and processes vital to the functioning of democracy. This interactive tool sets out a framework showing how different drivers of erosion interact, reinforce one another and create feedback loops that accelerate decline. It identifies five reinforcing loops of democratic erosion.

This report presents the findings of a policy stocktake that analysed whether the policies, plans and strategies for Australia’s disaster and emergency management, disaster response and recovery, counterterrorism and countering violent extremism efforts take into account the integrated issues of disaster response, disinformation and potential for extremist and malign actor exploitation of natural disasters.

This report finds that there is increasing awareness of digital threats to democracy, and less complacency about online harms. There is also greater buy-in for deliberative democracy principles among both the general public and elected decision-makers.