This report outlines how Australia's two major parties are positioning their messaging and policy on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and examines how these positions are evolving under increased international pressure and domestic scrutiny. It contends that whoever forms government will face a more volatile external environment and rising pressure to define clearer lines...

This policy platform identifies the Australian Labour Party priorities for the 2025 federal election. Policy areas include cost of living, tax reform and tax cuts, strengthening Medicare, housing supply and affordability, protecting the climate and environment, and growing the economy.

This report shows that there are fewer women than men running in the 2025 federal election and they are more likely to be running in ‘glass cliff’ seats that are hard to win and precarious to hold. Labor has a higher number of women than men running, but men still have a better shot at...

Operation Watts was the first joint investigation conducted by IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman. It scrutinised how branch stacking in the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) resulted in the alleged misuse of public funds for party political purposes, and subversion of parliamentary standards and processes. This report sets out the steps taken...

In June 2022, the the ALP National Executive moved to commence a review of Labor's 2022 federal election campaign, and Greg Combet and Lenda Oshalem to lead the review. This report outlines the findings.