This report reviews Australia's' Digital and ICT Investment Oversight Framework (IOF) progress three years post-launch, benchmarking it against OECD best practice. It identifies strengths, challenges and opportunities to ensure the IOF remains fit for purpose and continues to advance Australia’s digital government ambitions. Based on the assessment, the report provides policy recommendations for the Australian...

Aggressive geoeconomic interference by Beijing will soon devastate Australia’s smelting and metal refining regions unless the Federal Government acts decisively according to this report. The report finds that China is now spending more on industrial subsidisation than on defence. A loss of refining capacity means an undermining of sovereign capacity.

The First Nations Economic Partnership is an agreement with the: Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community‑Controlled Peak Organisations, First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance and the Australian Government. The purpose of the Economic Partnership is to advance the economic empowerment and lasting economic security for First Nations peoples, communities and organisations.

This paper posits that Australia’s fragmented research system and shrinking research workforce is undermining national productivity. Funding is too fragmented, the rules are too complicated and there is a lack of coordination across government. The paper suggests that aligning similar programs under the same portfolio – and linking strategy to delivery – is common sense.

This report investigates the extent and impacts of family homelessness in Australia. It finds that more families are accessing homelessness services. The crisis is huge yet still growing and services are overstretched. The report recommends a suite of policies the government can implement immediately to address this escalating crisis with a three-point plan to end...