As part of its planned humanitarian program, the government allocates places each year to refugees and others with humanitarian needs. This year's humanitarian program allocated 13,000 places for 2005-06, including 6000 places for the resettlement of refugees and 7000 places for the Special Humanitarian Program and protection visas in Australia. This research note outlines Australia's...

The outcome of the 2005 Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election stunned even the incumbent NT Chief Minister and leader of the Australian Labor Party. This was Labor's first re-election campaign since it ousted the Country Liberal Party in 2001. This report provides an overview of the campaign and the outcome.

Accusations about cost-shifting are a constant in debates about the Australian healthcare system. in this research note Luke Buckmaster and Angela Pratt provide an overview of the health cost-shifting debate in Australia. They examine the complex division of responsibilities for health care, discuss areas in which cost-shifting is said to occur, and highlight how both...

In this research note, Michael Priestley examines the evidence for consumers buying Australian products, the proposed changes to food labelling, and mandatory country of origin labelling in the United States.

On 22 July 2005, the Migration Amendment Regulations 2005 came into force, prescribing a number of islands as 'excised offshore places'. Moira Coombs describes the excision process and its legal implications, and provides a map showing excised areas and a chronology of related events.