This report examines a sharp rise in international student attrition at Australian universities and what it reveals about the growing misuse of the student visa system. It shows that first-year dropout rates among international undergraduate students have risen to historically high levels. The report proposes targeted reforms to restore integrity to the student visa program.

This paper argues that Australia could immediately expand opportunities for university education at zero cost to the taxpayer simply by limiting Commonwealth support to one degree per course and one course per student. This ‘1/1 policy’ would fund more students to obtain one undergraduate degree instead of paying for fewer students to obtain multiple undergraduate...

Joe Biden comes to the presidency amid great expectations for a return to normalcy in American foreign policy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a more benign international environment for Australia. This paper argues that Australia has an important role to play on what might be called the two ‘wings’ of Biden’s foreign policy: climate and...

This paper examines China’s subnational diplomacy in Australia and the suitability of Australia’s Foreign Relations Bill (AFRB) as a tool for countering it.

This paper argues that the coronavirus crisis was ‘the crisis that Australia didn’t have to have’. The paper lays out a detailed weekly timeline of the crucial first twelve weeks of the crisis, which were Australia’s window of opportunity for fighting the virus at the border, instead of in the community.