This paper lists all wind farms currently operating in Australia. Where available each of the following records has the following data—project name; company name; location; number of turbines; output per turbine in kilowatts (one kilowatt is one thousand watts); capacity in megawatts (one megawatt is one million watts or one thousand kilowatts); and date of...

Thorium is a naturally-occurring radioactive element that can be used in a new generation of nuclear reactors as an alternative source of fuel for the generation of electricity. It has several advantages as a nuclear fuel: • it produces less of the nuclear by-products normally used to make nuclear weapons and less of the long-lived...

This note examines the issues of Australia’s uranium in the context of world supply and demand, shows why world prices are rising, and looks to the future of the uranium industry in the environmental debate over greenhouse gas emissions.

Daylight saving time in Australia has a long and chequered history. This is largely because the responsibility for the setting of time zones has remained with state and territory authorities. Commonwealth power over weights and measures in the Constitution extends to the measurement of time, but whether it has power to legislate about time zones...

Sarah Miskin and Greg Baker examine political finance disclosures under the current and proposed thresholds, using the annual returns of the major parties (the Liberal Party, the Nationals and the ALP) for the financial years 1998–99 to 2003–04. Proposed amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act currently before parliament include measures to raise the thresholds for...