Insights & tools
Thinking and instruments from the practice.
Briefings, interactive tools and investigations on where Country, capital and infrastructure meet — built from public sources, offered as resources rather than verdicts. Client-confidential material is never used.
July 2026
After the draft: the Fitzroy plan and the partnership gap
Consultation on the Fitzroy–Derby Water Resources Management Plan has closed, and Traditional Owners have called the draft business-as-usual. A reading of what the plan gets right, where it falls short of a genuine Aboriginal Water Holding, and what a partnership-first version would look like — in support of Traditional Owner authority, not speaking for it.
Read the briefing →July 2026
Three futures for the SWIS — and the futures they don't test
WA is consulting on the scenarios that will steer grid investment to 2050. A structured-debate review of the FESO 2027 draft set — narrow spread, water invisible, Country unmodelled — with an interactive coverage explorer that turns your view of the future into feedback DEED can use, ahead of the August MISA consultation. A conversation starter, not a verdict.
Open the investigation →June 2026
When the Strait moves, WA pays
How Middle East volatility travels to Western Australia — a held tanker near the Strait of Hormuz becoming a Pilbara diesel price, an LNG netback, a desalination bill and a critical-minerals signal. A one-screen placemat across water, energy, infrastructure and partnerships on Country.
Read the placemat →June 2026
Three big bets, one drying water system
Western Australia's converging water demands — critical-minerals processing, the AUKUS defence build-out and the State's own cities all drawing on the same energy-intensive, climate-exposed water. Built entirely from public sources, with a data-confidence note.
Read the briefing →June 2026
The Partnership Test
Six questions that decide whether a partnership on Country empowers or extracts — who decides, who keeps the value, whether you can walk away. Answer them for a proposed arrangement and see where it stands. A conversation starter, not a verdict.
Take the test →June 2026
Nexus Scenario Navigator
A one-screen scenario-planning tool for the water–energy–infrastructure nexus across Australia & New Zealand — four futures, client archetypes and the consequential decisions in each. Generic archetypes; no client-confidential information.
Open the navigator →June 2026
Consulting, neoclassical economics & the backlash
A structured-debate investigation — prosecution, defence, cross-examination and a calibrated verdict — on whether consulting-diffused economic doctrine drove inequality and the nationalist-populist turn, argued link by link from the scholarly literature.
Read the investigation →Get in touch
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