Acquiring a firearm licence in Australia requires having a 'genuine reason' to own a gun. In most jurisdictions, this requirement can be satisfied by being a paid-up member of a sports shooting club. This paper finds that the thin practical requirements for obtaining a firearm licence are allowing an erosion of Australia’s gun control regime.

The briefing paper provides an analysis of all 150 federal electorates in Australia to show the flow of the 50% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount. It finds that the benefits of the CGT discount flow overwhelmingly to a small number of high-income, inner-city electorates in the eastern states.

War in the Middle East will likely increase global energy prices and presents significant implications for Australians and the Australian economy. This paper finds that Australian Government choices will determine how hard the price spike hits Australian households, how huge gas export company profits are and how much tax revenue Australia will collect.

Shipbuilding is strategically important – but statistically invisible. Across major shipbuilding economies, governments are making decisions on industrial support, skills and the energy transition with partial, inconsistent or poorly aligned data on the sector. This policy brief presents analysis across 11 countries and the European Union highlighting four key consequences of these data limitations.

This explainer assesses how the Trump Administration’s approach to United States intelligence is affecting, and will affect in the future, Australia’s national intelligence community and by extension its national interests. It concludes that Australia should enhance the fields in which it has, or can develop, genuine sovereign intelligence capabilities and thinking.