Australia is endowed with rich economic geology, and is an acknowledged leader in mineral production, in minerals governance, and in garnering broad economic benefits from its large mining and processing sector. This report is intended to provide the government with a road map to ‘step up’ to (re)activate Australia’s mineral leadership.

This report analyses economic security policies used by the United States and Japan over the last century to manage the risks and opportunities of global resource flows in an interconnected and dangerous world. The report also considers the current economic security institutional structures employed by those countries, and draws a key lesson for Australia.

This report outlines current financial system risk arising from fossil fuel investment, focusing on bank lending to fossil fuel expansion and the potential to reform prudential regulation to ensure bank lending is aligned with a decarbonised future. The report also explores the loopholes Australia's banks are exploiting that undermine their strong sustainability commitments.

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

One year after the Federal Court halted development on Santos’ A$5.6 billion Barossa gas project offshore the Northern Territory, the company is sticking resolutely to production targets that look increasingly unrealistic by the day, according to this IEEFA report.