Briefing paper
Briefing paper
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.
Briefing paper
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.
Briefing paper
Scams Prevention Framework Bill 2024: bill digest
Australian consumers face inconsistent protections from scams across differing service providers. The Scams Prevention Framework Bill 2024 seeks to amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to establish a framework for preventing and responding to scams. This bill digest details the key provisions of the Bill, providing context, definitions and international comparisons for the proposal.
Briefing paper
Lights out: ageing coal and summer blackouts
As coal generators continue to age and shut down, investment in replacement capacity – both renewable power and flexible storage – is critical. This paper finds that the ability of generators to reliably produce electricity has significantly dropped, coal outages have been a primary driver of power outage warnings and contributed to price spikes.
Briefing paper
Disinformation and cognitive warfare
An examination of the threat of disinformation and cognitive warfare in the Indo-Pacific, the brief unpacks how these tactics are reshaping national security and undermining democratic institutions. Drawing on global examples, it highlights the implications for regional stability and democratic resilience.