This note highlights key findings and trends for Australia identified in the 2025 OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index. It provides a profile of Australia’s regulatory environment across 22 services sectors from 2014 to 2025. The note highlights recent policy changes, identifying where the country performs well and where reforms could further reduce services trade restrictions.

This report explores the role of trade revenue in enabling social enterprise impact in Australia. A social enterprise is a business that exists to create public or community benefit. The report presents case studies, distils key insights and delivers strategic recommendations to strengthen the resilience of social enterprises.

The report provides up-to-date monitoring and evaluation of agricultural policies across 54 countries from across the world, including a chapter on Australia. This year’s edition of the report focuses on the interlinkages between trade, agriculture and the environment. It finds that integrating environmental objectives into trade policies in agriculture and food presents opportunities and challenges.

This report provides a blueprint for the Australian Government to cut red tape and out-of-date regulation in order to reduce costs for consumers and businesses, boost productivity and get more homes built faster. It finds that Australia has a more than $110 billion red-tape burden, which is holding back investment and major projects critical to...

Australian manufacturing has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades. This report on manufacturing explores the industry’s unique strengths and challenges with analysis of key performance factors such as economic and demand conditions, cost pressures, trade exposure, workforce needs and investment. It identifies key performance factors for 2024 and outlook themes for 2025.