The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is the centrepiece of Australia’s system of corporate and financial regulation. When corporate misconduct occurs, Australians expect that ASIC will investigate promptly, take appropriate enforcement action and deter future breaches of the law. Evidence to this inquiry has made clear the deep flaws in ASIC’s approach to investigation...

The Sustainable development report reviews progress made each year on the Sustainable Development Goals since their adoption by the 193 UN Member States in 2015. This year's report recommends a set of key reforms to the UN system to meet the challenges of the 21st century, and also presents a new index of countries’ support...

This is the second iteration of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s nature risk survey and report. First published in 2022, the report seeks to assess how ten banks and ten super funds are addressing nature-related risks in their portfolios. In doing so, the report provides a snapshot of how Australian financial institutions are addressing nature risk...

Pressures on nature from human activity – such as land use change and pollution, as well as climate change - are increasing the risk of terrestrial ‘ecosystem tipping points’ (ETPs): non-linear, self-amplifying and irreversible changes in ecosystem states that can occur rapidly and on a large scale. The authors of this report argue that financial...

The Consumer Policy Research Centre has worked with data released 20 March 2024 (for the 2022-23 financial year period) to present some key findings that explore the incidence and reporting of scams in Australia, and what this has looked like over the last few years.