Domestic building insurance (DBI) compensates homeowners for losses relating to incomplete or defective domestic building work. This review was established to examine how well DBI is being managed to protect homeowners. The review concludes the way DBI arrangements are managed has improved, but there are still gaps.

Climate change already threatens many people’s greatest asset, their home. This report identifies the suburbs and electorates across Australia where households and businesses face the most acute risk from climate-fuelled extreme weather events in 2025, and reveals the types of hazards that are driving this escalating risk.

An inquiry into the Cyclone Reinsurance Pool, a mechanism used by the Australian Government to influence insurance availability and affordability in cyclone-prone areas of northern Australia. The report makes recommendations in relation to the ongoing monitoring of insurance premiums and measures to improve resilience and mitigation for high-risk homes, including targeted tax offsets and direct...

The action plan outlines the insurance industry’s position on the remaining recommendations from the Parliamentary Flood Inquiry and the independent review of the industry’s Code of Practice. The plan provides seven areas of focus and key commitments, and responds to the Parliamentary inquiries into floods, the impact of climate risk on premiums and financial abuse.

An examination of the escalating crisis of insurance affordability and availability in the face of climate change, this report makes eight recommendations to increase government intervention, make insurance more transparent and reduce the risk faced by individuals and communities. Recommendations include abolishing taxes on insurance and the introduction of a fossil fuel levy to fund...