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Energy account, Australia, 2006-07

Australia's total energy use has increased by 15% over the last six years, according to this report

Summary of IT use and innovation in Australian business, 2007-08

Nearly half of all Australian businesses (45%) undertook some form of innovative activity - including the development or introduction of new or significantly improved goods, services, processes or methods - last financial year, according to this report

Environmental views and behaviour, 2007-08

This survey presents information on people's views and practices on environmental issues, for people aged 18 years and over

Recorded crime - victims, Australia, 2008

This chapter presents national statistics on incidents of victimisation for a selected range of offences that came to the attention of state and territory police and were recorded by them in the period 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008

Water use on Australian farms, 2007-08

This publication presents estimates of agricultural water use, including pastures and crops irrigated

Conceptual framework for family and domestic violence

This report contains a conceptual framework for data relating to family and domestic violence

Experimental life tables for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2005–2007

Life expectancy at birth of Indigenous Australians was 67

National health survey: summary of results, 2007-08

The National Health Survey of 2007-08 examines the key health issues in Australia

Schools, Australia, 2008
Labour force, Australia, April 2009

This report provides summary results of the monthly Labour Force Survey containing estimates of employed and unemployed persons classified by sex, full-time/part-time status, states and territories and some age groups; and persons not in the labour force

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
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Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

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