Submissions and Reports

A comparative study tracing the rise of deepfakes, bot networks, and algorithmic manipulation in political campaigns across the US, India, and Australia between 2019 and 2026, and the underdeveloped state of Australia's regulatory response.

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across the global economy has generated increasing concern regarding the environmental sustainability of AI-related corporate practices and the adequacy of existing frameworks for disclosing them.

This policy proposal is the research product of the inaugural Protocol Policy Lab’s Policy Research Program.

The National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Plan, released in December of 2025, is an initiative outlined by the Federal Government in order to highlight the regulatory direction of AI in Australia

A comparative analysis of AI national security governance in the US, Canada, China, and South Korea, arguing that Australia's National AI Plan under-integrates defence and national security considerations relative to peer nations, and proposing four targeted reforms.

A three-part study mapping current AI adoption across Australian healthcare operations, examining the clinical risks and benefits of AI medical scribes, and analysing why legal accountability for AI-related errors still falls on clinicians and healthcare institutions rather than developers.

A comparative policy report examining regulatory responses to non-consensual intimate deepfakes across Australia, America, Asia, and Europe, finding a 550% surge in Australian NCID creation since 2019 and recommending a more uniform, platform-accountable international approach.

Australia's elections are being shaped by deepfakes, bot swarms, and misleading content, all of which remain completely legal. This article unpacks why Truth in Political Advertising laws have failed to gain traction in Australia, and what's at stake if parliament lets yet another reform bill slip through the cracks.

As AI reshapes economies and societies at an unprecedented rate, the US, China, and the EU have taken strikingly different approaches to its legislative regulation. This comparative legal analysis examines each framework and explores how they might together inform a cohesive international AI regulatory standard.

When Grok users began generating non-consensual explicit deepfakes of real people, governments around the world scrambled to respond. This article traces the global regulatory reaction to xAI's controversial chatbot and argues that criminalising the sharing of harmful deepfakes isn't enough and that the law must target their creation.