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Briefing paper

Briefing paper

Gambling Legislation Amendment (Pre-commitment and Carded Play) Bill 2024: bill brief


The Bill aims to reduce the negative impacts of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) through the introduction of mandatory pre-commitment and carded play, as well as slowing minimum spin rates to at least 3 seconds in order to address both player losses and potential money laundering activity. This brief details the events leading up to these...
Briefing paper

Election priorities for a net zero, nature positive economy


This position paper outlines six priorities for the 2025 Australian federal election, aimed at limiting the long-term costs of unmitigated climate change. The brief calls for ambitious climate policies including strengthened emissions reduction targets and greater investment in carbon credit frameworks.
Briefing paper

Justice Legislation Amendment (Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion) Bill 2024: bill brief


This Bill seeks to update and expand Victoria’s current anti-vilification legislation. This brief provides contextual background to the Bill, as well as an overview of its key components, stakeholder responses and a comparison of anti-vilification protections in other Australian jurisdictions.
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Content Credentials: strengthening multimedia integrity in the generative AI era


The abuse of AI-generated media poses a significant and growing cybersecurity threat, creating an urgent need to bolster information integrity. This joint publication outlines leading approaches to confirming the provenance of digital content and recommends the swift and widespread adoption of Content Credentials across the information ecosystem.
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Building resilient Australian communities


This paper explores the perspectives of two communities in New South Wales, drawing on their lived experiences of community-wide crises to establish what community resilience means and how it is best supported. The insights from these communities reveal policy opportunities for the NSW Government that could boost community resilience in future.