There is no more important task for government than protecting the security, interests and livelihoods of its people. Accordingly, the Albanese Government commissioned this independent review to assess whether Australia has the necessary defence capability, posture and preparedness to best defend Australia and its interests in the strategic environment the nation now faces.

This discussion paper has been released to seek public and industry feedback to enhance the development of the Australian government's 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy.

​The Australian Government is currently seeking to enhance Commonwealth crisis responses and recovery capabilities. This comes as Australia faces increasingly frequent and severe crises. The Department of Home Affairs is seeking input on how the nation can achieve this.

The United States and its allies are in a strategic competition with China in which the race to develop and deploy emerging technologies will play a decisive role. Pillar Two of the trilateral AUKUS agreement, which focuses on jointly developing advanced capabilities between the three countries, holds the potential to supercharge progress.

This paper is intended to reframe the foundations of energy policy in Australia, to stimulate debate, and to guide future research (including, but not only, that under-taken by the IPA). It describes the nature and importance of energy security, and explains why it must be the pre-eminent consideration for energy and related policies

In this inquiry report, the Committee recommends that the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry review its food import risk frameworks to ensure that they are fit for purpose and that decisions under the frameworks are accelerated where required.

Regulatory interventions have an important role to play as one part of a strategy to uplift Australia’s cybersecurity, if done in the right way. This paper presents a framework for the government to make appropriate decisions about whether and how to regulate.

The authors of this paper assert that Australia must invest in defence capability commensurate with the challenges of the strategic environment. Crucially, the role of defence to help deter wars, while being ready for times of conflict, requires spending even in times of relative peace.

This report examines how governments — and the societies around them — mobilised intelligence to handle the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. It also makes recommendations as to how they could improve their ability to organise intelligence for future challenges of all kinds, from pandemics to climate change.

This report argues that the Australian Government should make public a declassified version of the Office of National Intelligence’s Climate Security Risk Assessment in order to help ground the current national debate on defence priorities, China and submarines.