This report aims to aid policy making and public discussion based on rigorous estimates of the current contribution of the core sciences. The Office of the Australian Chief Scientist commissioned the Australian Academy of Science to develop two complementary reports on the importance of recent advances in a selection of the sciences in the knowledge...

The Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) and the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) commissioned the Centre for International Economics (the CIE) to investigate and measure the importance of recent advances in the biological sciences to the Australian economy. This work followed an earlier similar report that presented results on the importance of recent advances...

This report was commissioned by the Office of the Chief Scientist and the Australian Academy of Science and produced by the Centre for International Economics (CIE). The report combines the expertise of Australia’s scientific community with that of business and industry. The aim has been to produce an economic framework that can use the available...

Summary The Centre for International Economics has modelled the impact of the following reforms on the Norfolk Island economy: ■ Core Reform — at the core of the proposed reforms is inclusion of Norfolk Island in the mainland’s welfare and Medicare systems. This would also necessitate participation in the mainland income taxation system ■ Other...

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