The contribution of government funding for public research into current and emerging foreign policy issues affecting Australia, with a focus on our key interests in the Indo-Pacific, including examining:

1. current funding by Australian Government departments and agencies in this area;
2. the quality and diversity of publicly funded think tanks focused on foreign policy;
3. ways of enhancing greater public understanding of foreign policy issues;
4. how the Australian Government involves states, business, civil society, unions, universities, think tanks, diasporas and the wider community in developing and implementing foreign policy;
5. strategies the Australian Government should adopt to build the knowledge needed to support more effective future foreign policy; and
6. any related issues