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.

This report investigates the challenge driven by the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in schooling: the risk that students will outsource too much of the cognitive work that is crucial to establishing knowledge, skill and ‘thinking infrastructure’. The report includes specific recommendations for policy and teaching and learning strategies.

Australia’s bid to co-host the UN climate summit COP31 with Pacific Island countries was built around a clear objective to elevate Pacific climate concerns. That objective is now at risk. The paper proposes that Australia should position the pre-COP for selected global leaders, using it to align Pacific priorities with those of other climate-vulnerable countries.

The toolkit is designed to assist all school teachers in implementing applied learning across the subjects they teach. It provides teachers and school leaders with a set of flexible and adaptable guidelines and resources for designing, facilitating and assessing applied learning in a senior secondary school setting.

The report card is an important mechanism for taking stock of where Australia is making progress towards gender equality, and where challenges still remain. It presents both updated and new data points for the following areas: attitudes and norms; gender-based violence; unpaid and paid care; economic equality and security; health; and leadership, representation and decision...