This report recommends that corporate governance should be strengthened through the introduction of independent remuneration committees, measures to promote board accountability and shareholder engagement, enhanced pay disclosure and increased pressure on those boards that are unresponsive to shareholder concerns. Strong growth in executive remuneration from the 1990s to 2007, and instances of large payments despite...

There is a need for wide-ranging reforms and a reduction in compliance costs faced by the not-for-profit sector, according to this draft research report. The Commission's proposed reforms would bring together the multiplicity of governance, taxation, and fundraising regulatory requirements to create a much stronger foundation for this expanding sector. Proposed changes to government funding...

Includes population growth, fertility and mortality, overseas migration, geography of population growth, future population growth etc.

This report identifies differences in requirements imposed on business by the food safety regulatory regimes at all levels of government in Australia and New Zealand. The report identifies opportunities for all jurisdictions to improve food safety regulation and its enforcement in order to reduce burdens on business and costs to the community. It is part...

Public and private hospitals are estimated to have similar total costs, according to this report, but there are differences in the composition of costs between the two sectors, with medical and diagnostics, and prostheses more costly in private hospitals; and general hospital costs and capital costs higher in public hospitals. This discussion draft responds to...