Australia’s foreign policy has consistently identified Timor-Leste as a country of the most immediate importance to Australia. As one of Australia’s closest neighbours, this paper argues that Timor-Leste needs to be front and centre in Australia’s strategic outlook, foreign policy and personal connections.

The World Bank’s annual World Development Reports (WDRs) are staples of the global community’s reservoir of knowledge and data about key development issues. The 2023 edition discusses migration, one of the world’s most important and pressing challenges.

The Australian government and European Union are looking to improve the complementarity and coordination of their infrastructure financing efforts, especially in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region. This paper makes several suggestions for how this group of like-minded partners can lift their infrastructure financing contribution.

The world is rife with 'wicked' problems — problems that no one knows how to solve without creating further problems. The author of this paper proposes a new international organisation, the Wicked Problems Agency, to catalyse both data sharing and data analysis in the interest of mitigating wicked problems.

The world faces a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar. This report 2023 explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade. As we stand on the edge of a low-growth and low-cooperation era, tougher trade-offs risk eroding climate action, human development and future resilience.