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30 Years of Asialink Leaders: Bringing Australian stories of Asia Capability to life
The Action Exchange was delighted to support Asialink Business to produce a publication celebrating 30 years of the Asialink Leaders Program in 2025. Featuring long form interviews with 17 leaders across government, business, academia, the arts, sports and diaspora community, the book offers vivid accounts of lessons learned for achieving success in Asia.

Energising Change: Accelerating Australia’s Energy Transition Infrastructure
Australia's energy transition faces hurdles: complex regulations, grid issues, supply chain bottlenecks, and community support. Energising change: Accelerating Australia’s energy transition infrastructure, an AFR Insights report supported by CIMIC, authored by The Action Exchange, offers solutions and innovations to accelerate clean energy infrastructure and achieve net-zero targets.

The climate solutions advantage
The Climate Solutions Advantage is a practical guide designed to help large organisations and industry associations champion climate action across Australia’s mid-tier business sector. Developed by the Centre for Policy Development and The Action Exchange, the guide provides clear, compelling messages to communicate the economic benefits of climate solutions.

Superannuation Giants: A model for global financial strength
Lauded by politicians and industry leaders as 'the envy of the developed world', Australia's compulsory superannuation industry has quietly become one of the world's largest institutional investors. This article, published by QIC, provides a short background on Australia’s superannuation sector.

Ahead of the Curve: The challenges and opportunities of shifting to proactive operational resilience
Digital technologies have become the bedrock of modern society, and their reliability and resilience are increasingly issues of national importance. Operational resilience has moved from an IT concern to a whole of organisation priority. Read our latest report, ‘Ahead of the Curve,’ in partnership with AFR Insights and PagerDuty.

Second generation technology: Banking on the next transformation
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and increased consume demand for improved digital banking capabilities, are together propelling the next generation of digitalisation in Australian retail banks. Read our latest AFR Intelligence report commissioned by NextGen, Second generation technology: Banking on the next transformation.

Investing in a Pollution Free Ocean
The ocean plays a vital role in Earth’s life support system, and its natural assets are indispensable to industries both on land and at sea. This discussion paper, Investing in a Pollution Free Ocean’ assesses the current landscape of actions by the business and finance sectors to address ocean pollution.

Investment alternatives: Navigating private credit’s ‘golden age’
Once a relatively small part of the debt market, private credit is rapidly expanding, leading some to describe today as “a golden age of private credit”. Read our latest AFR Intelligence report commissioned by La Trobe Financial, Investment alternatives: Navigating private credit’s ‘golden age’.

Reach Australia’s most influential business audience with AFR Insights
AFR Insights sees The AFR collaborating with leading companies to provide in-depth analysis of the issues shaping Australia's future. Going beyond traditional branded content, AFR Insights connects with The AFR's influential audience through editorially independent, research-driven insights.

The era of digital complexity in Australian energy, utilities and infrastructure
The era of digital complexity in Australian energy, utilities and infrastructure written by Clayton Utz in partnership with The Action Exchange, explores the changing nature of procurement and contracting in increasingly digitally-connected infrastructure, energy and utilities projects.