Built environment
Report
Best Practice Charter 2025
The Best Practice Charter for Renewable Energy Projects is a voluntary set of commitments for developers. Signatory reports for 2025 contain examples of how renewable energy developments are delivering for local communities, Traditional Owners, landholders and the environment. This summary report presents the local benefits and contributions clean energy projects are delivering across Australia.
Report
Indoor air: the science of indoor air and pathways to improve indoor air quality in Australia
Air pollution negatively affects human health and wellbeing, accessibility of spaces and the economy. In Australia, indoor air is neither measured or monitored according to scientific best practice. This report provides a primer on the scientific evidence base and explores policy pathways to deliver healthier indoor air for everyone.
Report
More homes, better cities: letting more people live where they want
This report finds that housing in Australia's major cities is among the least affordable in the world. It proposes that three-storey townhouses and apartments should be permitted on all residential land in all capital cities as part of a concerted policy assault on the housing crisis. The report provides 11 recommendations.
Report
The right to power: keeping First Nations communities on prepayment connected
This report shows how frequent household disconnections are impacting food security, health, wellbeing and economic participation for First Nations’ communities in Australia. It provides six high-level recommendations and associated actions to create a fairer and more inclusive energy transition for all Australians.
Discussion paper
Delivering a high energy Australia
A blueprint for a high energy Australia finds that net zero is failing Australians and proposes guiding principles for an alternative path forward. The paper provides a set of policy recommendations representing a framework for restoring national strength through abundant, affordable energy, revitalising Australia’s industrial base and re-establishing an environmental ethic of stewardship rather than...