This final inquiry report builds on the Committee's interim report, published in February 2024, that made five recommendations focused on improving transparency, accountability, and oversight in the process for negotiating Australia’s trade and investment agreements.

This interim report examines how processes can be strengthened to build on Australia’s success as a trading nation and ensure trade and investment agreements are of the greatest benefit for all Australians.

This policy brief explores some of the most pressing challenges affecting trade since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and provides policy recommendations to overcome them.

This paper discusses the current and likely future trade relationship between New Zealand and the USA.

This discussion paper highlights how some of the long-standing memes, which have dominated the local discourse no longer apply in a post-COVID world. In particular, New Zealand’s openness to external trade and foreign investment, and the role of migration in driving population growth have all changed.