This article draws on Social Ventures Australia's experience with the Resolve Social Benefit Bond (Resolve SBB), which funded a psychosocial, recovery-oriented community support program. It reviews the features of relational contracting and provides insights from this experience for commissioners to understand what relational contracting looks like when taken from concept to delivery.

A review into the Australian Government Single Seller Arrangements (SSAs) from 2019 to 2024. The review reaffirmed these contracting frameworks are fit for purpose and remain an effective way for government to leverage its collective buying power to provide value for money. The SSAs are pre-negotiated, whole of Australian Government technology agreements with specified sellers.

This report examined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia's ethical soundness in response to the 2023 Tax Practitioners Board's investigation into PwC's head of Australia's international tax. The Department of Finance concludes that PwC Australia has implemented, or is in the process of implementing, appropriate governance, ethical and cultural structures to significantly improve its ethical operation.

The 99-year Port of Darwin lease to a Chinese subsidiary in 2015 has been one of the most contentious decisions in recent Australian foreign policy. Despite government reviews finding no national security reasons to terminate the agreement, intensifying global and regional strategic environments have renewed debate. This brief outlines the context, continuing doubts and what's...

This audit examined implementation of recommendations in relation to mandatory minimum requirements (MMRs) for Indigenous employment and procurement by the Australian Government. It found some departments had only partly implemented the prior recommendations and makes eight recommendations to improve compliance with the MMRs.