This conversation with political analyist and 2010 Parlimentary Fellow, Dr Peter Brent, discusses the changing relationship with Federal politicians and the media.

This paper contends that the hype surrounding the steep rise of social media networking website use has tended to mask the reality of a corresponding growth in online fraud and crime. New Web 2.0 technologies may enable inventive interactivity online, but they also foster innovative ways for those intent on nefarious means to achieve their...

On 16 December 2009, the Government released its aviation white paper. This is the most comprehensive statement of the Government’s aviation policy. The white paper followed the release of the aviation green paper on 2 December 2008, and an earlier issues paper titled Towards a National Aviation Policy Statement, which attracted approximately 300 submissions. The...

This paper lists all wind farms currently operating in Australia. Where available each of the following records has the following data—project name; company name; location; number of turbines; output per turbine in kilowatts (one kilowatt is one thousand watts); capacity in megawatts (one megawatt is one million watts or one thousand kilowatts); and date of...

This paper traces the history of the anti siphoning regime in Australia. It discusses its development and explores the arguments for and against its retention, both in past context and in relation to a current government inquiry into the relevance of the scheme in a changing 21st century media environment.