Why do creative clusters emerge within some specific urban morphologies and not others? This paper is based on a series of in-depth interviews with cultural producers in a range of fields including included design, new media, visual and performing arts, working in key creative clusters in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

This report aims to contribute to understanding and debate of the implications of UNESCO’s 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression, to which Australia became a signatory in 2009.

This communique presents the agreed positions of the participants in the G20 Brisbane Summit, as well as key documents, and issues for further action. Introduction Raising global growth to deliver better living standards and quality jobs for people across the world is our highest priority. We welcome stronger growth in some key economies. But the...

In this Lowy Institute Analysis, G20 Studies Centre Director Mike Callaghan examines what outcomes from the Brisbane G20 Summit in November would help reinvigorate the forum and render this year's Summit a success. Key findings While Australia has sought to strengthen the G20 by pursuing during its presidency a more focused agenda, events in 2014...

This paper examines the role, effectiveness and processes associated with the G20, specifically looking at the issues of international governance, financial regulation and taxation regulation. Executive summary With the GFC behind us and the G20’s financial system reform agenda ending soon, the group has been left open to criticism that the November 2014 Brisbane Summit...