PIAC has made a submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental leave. PIAC strongly supports the introduction of a national scheme of paid leave for parents. It is in the public interest for working families to be able to access some form of paid leave upon the birth of a...

In February 2008, the Parliamentary Committee on Children and Young People established an inquiry to investigate and report on children and young people aged 9 to 14 years in NSW. The inquiry was undertaken under the statutory functions of the Commission and Young People Act 1998 (NSW). The Submission from PIAC focusses on the activities...

The Phase 2 Report of the Ministerial Council on Energy's cost-benefit analysis of a national rollout of Smart Meters was released in March 2008. In its response, PIAC endorses the Report's recommendation that a rollout should be led by distribution businesses and that greater consumer protections be implemented before a rollout takes place. However, PIAC...

PIAC made a submission in response to the release of the Review of the disability standards for accessible public transport: Draft report (the Draft Report) in January 2008.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) commissioned the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) to consider the economic case for and against privatisation of electricity assets in NSW. The report, Electricity supply in NSW: alternatives to privatisation, reviews Australian and international experiences with electricity privatisation, critically examines the case...