Sovereign capability means controlling the inputs that are fundamental to the functioning of an economy. This report recommends the establishment of Sovereign Power, a Commonwealth entity to build and own firmed renewable regeneration, offering long-term power purchase agreements to Australia’s strategic industrial facilities. It finds control over electricity for heavy manufacturing is the big gap.

The Queensland energy roadmap provides clarity for the future of coal and gas, and support for private sector investment in renewables and firming projects. It offers insights to the state of the energy market, outlines Queensland’s energy system outlook to 2030 and beyond, and defines policy settings to deliver affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.

This paper updates a 2017 paper​ by the NSW Parliamentary Research Service. It features a timeline of privatisations that have occurred in NSW since 1989, up to the most recent sale of the Westconnex Group in 2021.

The document provides data on the diversity of representation across New Zealand state sector boards and committees, with a specific focus on gender, Māori and ethnic diversity.

Since the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, the prevalence and transparency of state ownership – both domestic and foreign -- has exhibited considerable variance across the region. To explain this puzzle, I argue that a tight focus on two dimensions of politics yields a remarkable degree of analytic purchase: centralization of political control and a...