The return mandates for Australia’s specialist investment vehicles currently push them towards safe bets and guaranteed commercial returns. A key barrier to reform has been a concern that lowering the return mandate and raising the risk appetite could leave the government fiscally worse off. This report demonstrates that reform could improve measures of Australia’s fiscal...

This report provides an industry perspective on AUKUS Pillar 2 – the security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States focussed on joint development of advanced capabilities. It recommends that AUKUS Pillar 2 must shift from a policy development to capability execution focus through capability development and acquisition pathways.

The strategy details how the NSW Government will work with partners to make NSW the best place to innovate. Goals and action areas guide how the Government will design programs, allocate funding and interact with stakeholders. Innovation is essential for the economic, social, and environmental well-being of NSW and the blueprint aims to create opportunity...

This report finds government funding is generally skewed towards the later stages of industry development which are already comparatively well-financed by private capital markets. It suggests shifting more funding towards the early stages of industry development, including high-risk high-reward projects that might otherwise struggle to gain private finance, and could one day become major players...

We are entering a period where (space) trade frictions are falling, creating new markets. Space as a new economic domain is rapidly expanding, with momentous political, security and economic implications. This new domain of economic competition will generate new opportunities but also open up new challenges requiring policymakers’ focus and action.