Unauthorised arrivals found to be refugees and accepted into Australia are granted a three-year TPV with the option of applying for further protection at the end of the three years. Janet Phillips outlines TPV policy and legislation from its introduction in 1999, looks at the restrictions on TPV visas and the implications of those restrictions...

In December 2003, the Commonwealth and NSW ministers for transport announced that they had reached an agreement which will result in investment of $872 million in the NSW section of the interstate rail freight network, the Hunter Valley coal lines, and the Albury-Melbourne line. The agreement will have important consequences for the rail and road...

Coastal shipping is an important component of the national transport task, carrying mostly heavy cargoes over long distances. But, as Richard Webb shows in this report, coastal shipping's share of the domestic transport task has fallen from around 40 to 28 per cent (measured in tonne kilometres) over the past 15 years, the number of...

This paper by Graeme Selleck, updated for the 2003-04 financial year, is designed to provide readers with a 'ready reckoner' - a simple, easy to use summary of superannuation taxation and preservation rules. It includes summaries of the latest changes to the superannuation system by the government, as well as the government's remaining proposed change...

This electronic brief provides a survey of parliamentary debate during the establishment of the parliamentary pension scheme for senators and members. By outlining the basis upon which the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Bill 1948 was introduced, the e-brief hopes to assist debate on proposed changes to the scheme in 2004. A selective chronology of legislative amendments...