Trade and Assistance Review 2010-11 was released on 6 June 2012. The review contains the Commission's latest quantitative estimates of Australian Government assistance to industry. The Review also: identifies recent developments in assistance to industries and sectors of the economy reports on budgetary measures that have provided adjustment assistance to industry reports on recent international...

This research report for the study on the impacts of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reforms: Business Regulation and Vocational Education and Training (VET). The report has three sections detailing an overview, Business Regulation and VET. Effective economic reform promotes productivity growth and improvements in living standards. The implementation of Australia’s National Competition Policy...

Australia's future will depend on how well it develops the ‘human capital’ of its population. A well-performing schooling system is fundamental. It benefits individuals, the functioning and cohesion of society and the performance of the economy. The importance of school education has increased with the shift to a more knowledge-based economy. Australia’s schooling system generally...

This draft report was released to assist participants in preparing a submission to the public inquiry into Barriers to Effective Climate Change Adaptation. Climate change adaptation is action by households, firms, other organisations and governments to respond to the impacts of climate change that cannot be avoided through climate change mitigation efforts. An effective national...

The Report on Government Services 2012 was released in January 2012. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has identified the performance of mainstream services in relation to Indigenous Australians as a particular focus of the Report, and an Indigenous Compendium collating relevant data from the main Report was released on 20 April 2012. In April...