This article unpacks the Attorney-General's Department's adequate procedures guidance ahead of Australia's failure-to-prevent foreign bribery offence. It sets out the principles of proportionality and effectiveness underpinning strong anti-bribery compliance systems, and walks through the key features companies need — risk assessment, due diligence, training, whistleblowing channels, and monitoring — to build a defensible compliance program.

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 ranks 182 countries by perceived public sector corruption, giving businesses a country-by-country benchmark for assessing bribery and corruption risk in markets they operate in or expand into. The 2025 edition shows the global average at a new low of 42/100.

The Bribery Prevention Network and members of the International Foreign Bribery Taskforce (IFBT) hosted a webinar exploring the key indicators of foreign bribery. To help organisations and the public identify these hidden risks, the IFBT released a landmark publication, Indicators of Foreign Bribery, which served as the foundation for this session. During the webinar, expert speakers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office (SFO) unpacked these indicators and provided practical insights into how organisations can recognise and report suspicious activity. Explore case studies by visiting the webinar slides.

This guide by Austrade, outlines how to create an effective anti-bribery and corruption program; including why anti bribery and corruption compliance matters, developing your program, implementing your program, and maintaining your program.

The purpose of this guide is to help Australian Government officials better understand the factors that lead to fraud and corruption, and provide advice on a range of strategies that entities can implement to mitigate the probability of these risks as well as the harm they cause for the public sector.

Accompanying the guide, is a Control Design Template and a Fraud Control Catalogue.

This Resource Guide provides States with a framework for identifying and implementing an appropriate mix of sanctions and incentives for encouraging business integrity. It reflects the latest developments in the global anti-corruption landscape and contains case studies that serve to share information and practices and provide inspiration to States and the private sector.