Consumers are becoming increasingly significant suppliers of electricity through the energy transition. This report analyses distribution network performance in providing services to customers who export electricity back into the grid. It finds 27% of all network customers now use export services.

The Household Energy Glossary report seeks to enhance communication within the Australian energy sector, and between the sector and everyday people. It focuses on four key concepts – consumers, concessions, cost, and control – to show that the way we name and describe concepts influences how we understand the challenges associated with them, and envision...

The Business Solutions Program (BSP) provides financial and business support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business owners and entrepreneurs. This mixed-method evaluation aimed to understand whether the BSP’s delivery achieved its policy intent to support and develop early stage, pre-bank, and high-risk Indigenous businesses. It finds that the BSP was generally aligned with its...

Increasingly, corporations are seen to be moving away from holding shareholders interests as the central goal in order to align themselves prominently with popular causes. Polling shows that the public are increasingly unimpressed by corporate activism and that overall, doing nothing is almost certainly the best approach from a business perspective.

Competition and economic dynamism should be considered complementary parts of the economic ecosystem. Improving the level of competition and dynamism within Australia's economy is a key challenge for policy-makers, and this report puts forward some practical steps that may help.