This report summarises how global climate policy has developed and to describe the core features that should underpin climate policy going forward. Several case studies are provided to illustrate effective climate finance policy in Australia, the European Union, Japan and the United States.

The purpose of this report is to detect and analyse coordinated activity that occurred on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Reddit during the initial Republican Primary Debate and the counter-programmed Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump interview on 23rd August 2023.

The deteriorating security environment and the prospect of nuclear coercion or nuclear use in the Indo-Pacific raises difficult questions for the US-Australia alliance. This paper puts forward some suggestions as to how the alliance could manage these nuclear challenges.

Despite space being a smaller part of broader policy concerns, Australia’s future use of space for national security ends is important and necessarily involves the United States, if only because of how deeply Australia is enmeshed in the American space enterprise. This report examines the US-Australia relationship in space, its structures, challenges and future.

This report analyses how the shock to the system created by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted governments’ ability to use emergency dollars for public services, and draws on this analysis to develop recommendations for how states can use future recovery funds to help deliver key services during critical times of need.