This article is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between legal scholars and a journalist with prolific expertise and experience in media. The aim is to explain and clarify several pieces of Australian legislation and regulation and the free speech burdens it potentially imposes, to determine whether the laws are suitably targeted at preventing and...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a profound influence on the way people communicate – a change which has accelerated with the advent of new forms of generative AI. This research investigates the implications of this for public discourse, trust and democracy.

This paper outlines how the Canadian government is currently exploring the creation of a foreign influence transparency registry, to try to reduce the potential for foreign state actors to deceptively engage in influence campaigns through Canadian intermediaries.

In order to support an informed discussion about the Voice referendum and its aftermath, the Australian National University collected a detailed survey immediately following the referendum (the October 2023 Australian Constitutional Referendum Study (ACRS)/ANUpoll) from a broadly representative sample of over 4,000 adult Australians. This research report outlines the findings.

This report investigates how major public companies in Australia disclose and govern their political expenditures and climate lobbying.