Australia faces a rapidly escalating breakdown in information integrity. Climate disinformation is evolving from a communications issue into a national security challenge. This report finds that government efforts are not commensurate with the sheer scale, resourcing and coordination of disinformation networks. It provides recommendations for systemic approaches, initial steps and as a task for government.

Australia’s Health Technology Assessment system uses comparative evaluation to determine the value of medicines against a relevant comparator. Comparator selection has increasingly defaulted to the lowest cost comparator. This analysis finds that the lowest cost comparator use has become systemic, creating structural barriers to patient access. It provides a phased roadmap proposing eight actions.

This report draws on three nationally representative survey and eight deliberative focus groups. It reveals complexity and commonalities in Australian community attitudes to national security, risk and resilience. The findings are intended to offer an evidence-based foundation for the hard conversations – and choices – a more dangerous world demands at a moment of compounding...

This report outlines the purpose and key provisions of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025, which strengthens penalties, offences and banning powers to deter unsafe and poor quality services. It summarises inquiry evidence, regulatory context, and committee consideration, and recommends that the bill be passed.

The conflict in the Middle East has created the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. This report outlines demand-side measures available to governments, businesses and households that span road transport, air travel, cooking and industry amid strains in diesel, jet fuel and LPG markets. It outlines 10 immediate actions to...