The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) investment blueprint is a guide to net zero investment in Australia. It sets a clear example of how to make national climate commitments investable. The blueprint highlights key investment opportunities across the six sector plans supporting Australia’s Net Zero Plan, including Future Made in Australia priority industries.

Pacific Island countries are among the most climate vulnerable in the world and face huge unmet adaptation financing needs. This policy brief outlines how it is in Australia’s interest to help meet this need. It recommends that Australia should direct more of its aid resources to the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific for...

Aggressive geoeconomic interference by Beijing will soon devastate Australia’s smelting and metal refining regions unless the Federal Government acts decisively according to this report. The report finds that China is now spending more on industrial subsidisation than on defence. A loss of refining capacity means an undermining of sovereign capacity.

The review provides a summary of developments in Australian Government industry assistance, trade policy and foreign investment over the past year. The report finds that continuing to advocate for free and open trade and looking for opportunities to lower tariffs would be the best responses to changes in global trade policy.

This report outlines Australia’s approach to research security. The threats that are confronting Australia are adapting, and so Australia’s approach will similarly need to adapt. The report argues that Australia’s research security posture must evolve, moving beyond the narrow lens of countering foreign interference and espionage to a broader, more integrated and risk-based framework.