Argues that Australian policymakers need to articulate a strategy for the possibility that a large, state-owned oil company will make a bid for an Australian energy company or major energy asset. Policy recommendations Australia must develop and articulate a robust energy security strategy which aligns national security imperatives and the need to maintain an open...

This report, a product of Indonesian and Australian collaborators, provides an evidence-based argument that the opportunities to capture a significant part of a multi-trillion dollar market are real and that capturing them through combining, creating and selling are, in the words of ANZ CEO Mike Smith, ‘attainable without having to do too much to make...

Over the last 10 years, around 15 per cent of the Australian aid budget was spent through two multilateral development banks (MDBs): the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank. Close to two-thirds of this was given as non-core funding (funding earmarked for a specific purpose or region). Through these contributions the aid program...

Discusses a range of factors that Solomon Islands villagers face when deciding whether or not to allow access to minerals buried in land over which they hold customary tenure. Introduction Now that Solomon Islands' timber resources are depleted there is a renewed focus on exploiting the nation's mineral resources. With the country's only mine, at...

Assesses the degree to which the investment by the Australian aid program into research has been appropriate, effective and efficient, and provides recommendations for improving DFAT’s future management of research investment.