The review covers the breadth of threats and hazards faced by Australia’s critical infrastructure over the past 12 months. It provides guidance on emerging and enduring risks that impact national security and economic prosperity. The review is designed for a diverse audience across all levels of industry, government and the broader community.

This performance audit of the Australian Government Crisis Management Framework is undertaken to provide assurance to Parliament over processes to identify and disseminate lessons learnt, and on the readiness of government systems and processes to respond to future crises including pandemics, natural disasters, terrorism, and cyber incidents.

This article discusses the consequences of misused technology and the challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to transparency and accountability in contemporary democratic socio-economic and legal structures.

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence in Australia of multi-type child maltreatment, defined as two or more maltreatment types (physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, or exposure to domestic violence) and to examine its nature, family risk factors, and gender and age cohort differences.

The purpose of the model laws elaborated by the Regulatory Institute is to facilitate the tasks of regulatory practitioners to improve the quality of laws by triggering more conscious choices. This model law aims to optimise two goals, taking profit of knowledge of specialists and avoiding conflicts of competence, by giving a centralised all-emergencies-centre a...