Australia’s imprisonment rate has increased sharply in the last four decades and governments are spending increasingly large amounts on overburdened prison systems. This essay draws lessons from criminal justice reforms in the United States to propose alternative approaches to sentencing and community safety.

This paper analyses the social and economic challenges facing Queenslanders, across four key metrics of government finances, economy, public services, and law and order. The note establishes that on these metrics Queensland has been declining over the past decade, and will continue to decline without corrective action by the state government.

According to this report Australian students are dropping out of university degrees in record numbers and Australia’s universities have been allowed to transform into little more than degree factories for international students.

This paper highlights the important relationship between microeconomic conditions and macroeconomic performance, and how business conditions flow on to affect overall economic performance. Twelve key metrics are established to develop an overall ease of doing business score. The twelve metrics are state government policies or state-level indicators that influence or determine a business’ ability to...

This paper addresses the strategic challenges influencing Australia's defence and security needs and argues that countering a worsening national security outlook by strengthening the Australian Defence Force and building international alliances should be an urgent priority for government.