According to this study, the Council of Australian Governments' National Reform Agenda has the potential to significantly raise national output and incomes in Australia. The study examines the benefits potentially available in the long term from further enhancing competition in key infrastructure areas, reducing regulatory burdens on business, achieving more cost-effective health services and raising...

This twelfth annual report from the Review of Government Service Provision examines the performance of all Australian governments providing education, justice, emergency management, health, community services and housing. These services account for 60 per cent of government recurrent expenditure and over 10 per cent of gross domestic product.

This staff working paper is part of a stream of Productivity Commission research focused on labour participation issues, which commenced with the Commission's study for CoAG on the Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia (8408).

This paper examines the comparability of international workforce participation rates and seeks to better understand the magnitude of the gap between Australia's workforce participation rates and those of other OECD countries.

This is the twelfth edition of the Report on Government Services since it was commissioned by Heads of Government (now COAG) in July 1993.