This paper presents a set of performance indicators for monitoring neonatal hearing screening activity in Australia at a national level, to help measure how well neonatal hearing screening is achieving its aims. Summary Each year in Australia approximately 551 children are born with moderate to profound permanent childhood hearing impairment. Universal neonatal hearing screening aims...

Australian innovation and engagement with Asia is the theme of the Australian Innovation System Report 2013, the fourth in a series of Australian Government reports on the Australian innovation system. The core message of this report is that the rise of Asia presents many opportunities for Australia beyond the resources sectors. Seizing these opportunities will...

This report looks at the evidence collected and assessed by the Safety Monitoring Committee established to assess whether there were adverse outcomes following the introduction of new guidelines on how women with a low-grade Pap test result or a treated high-grade cervical biopsy result should be managed. Summary It has been 7 years since the...

This report examines the effects of ageing on economic output (underpinned by changes in population, participation and productivity) and the resulting implications for government budgets were current policy settings to be maintained. Key points: Australia's population will both grow strongly and become older. Such slow but profound shifts in the nature of a society do...

This paper describes the key procedural changes that were effected in the 43rd Parliament following the 2010 federal election, which resulted in a hung parliament—the first hung parliament since the early 1940s. The paper focuses on the work of the House of Representatives, where the reforms introduced during the hung parliament had the greatest impact...