This inquiry report into disability care and support in Australia highlighted a failing disability system that was inadequate and inequitable. The report and its recommendations led to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Population growth has been the subject of much public discussion in recent times. However, widespread misconceptions about the pace, characteristics and implications of population growth means that much of this debate has not been as well informed by the facts as the topic deserves. To enhance public understanding, in December 2010 the Commission released a...

In this address to the session 'Managing the Growth Shock' at the Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne on 30 June 2011, Gary Banks discusses the role for policy in the current mining boom. "Australia’s past reform successes have generally been founded on a clear understanding of problems warranting policy solutions. Where policy initiatives...

Improvements could be made to the reform agenda for teachers, principals and other school workers that governments are pursuing, according to this draft report. The draft report - Schools Workforce - finds that governments have initiated a substantial reform agenda to target issues such as teacher shortages, educational disadvantage, and the quality of the school...

In 2009-10, Australian Government budgetary outlays, tax concessions and import tariffs provided Australian industry with $17.3 billion in assistance in gross terms, according to this latest annual review. Trade and Assistance Review 2009-10 was released on 16 June 2011. The review contains the Commission's latest quantitative estimates of Australian Government assistance to industry. According to...