This high-level snapshot looks at trends in criminal and security threats in Australia. It highlights the increasingly complex and interconnected nature of threats shaped by rapid technological advancement, geopolitical instability, and climate change, and outlines the strategic priorities for addressing these challenges.

This paper investigates how a shared responsibility model for cloud-based infrastructure (CBI) could allow investigators to take advantage of CBI's benefits to scale, speed and inter-agency cooperation while minimising the risk to law enforcement agencies and victims. It proposes CBI as a scalable method to manage this material, arguing for a tailored security environment to...

This report provides an estimate of Australian governments’ proactive expenditure on illicit drugs for the financial year 2021/22. Four drug policy domains were included: prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and law enforcement. The report finds that Australian governments spend more on law enforcement in illicit drug policy than treatment, prevention and harm reduction combined.

Australia is a highly attractive market for transnational organised crime organisations which are importing illicit drugs on an industrial scale due to the exceptional profitability of the drug market. This report recommends that the Australian government commission research to understand the impacts of decriminalisation in Australian and international jurisdictions where reforms have been implemented. Such...

This review report focuses on two main issues - the Australian Department of Home Affairs’ current procurement and contract management processes, with a particular focus on the garrison and welfare services contract, and a selective review of the media claims relating to previous regional processing contracts.