The personal services income (PSI) regime is one of many taxation measures administered by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Australia’s principal revenue collection agency with responsibility for administering Australia’s taxation and superannuation systems. In 2011––12, the ATO collected $301 billion in net revenue from taxpayers, working within a departmental operating budget of $3.4 billion and...

The Closing the Gap Clearinghouse was established by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to bring together research and evaluation evidence on overcoming disadvantage for Indigenous Australians. This report and its appendices summarise the findings of the Clearinghouse on what works in relation to the three COAG building blocks that were the focus of the...

This paper seeks to provide a guide to better understand: what is expertise, how to determine who are the relevant experts where it comes to the technical aspects of public policy debates, and how to go about choosing between competing expert claims.

This report contains eight linked feasibility studies conducted in Cairns during 2010. These exploratory studies examine the complex challenges of compiling and sharing information about incidents of person-to-person violence in a late night entertainment precinct (LNEP). The challenges were methodological as well as logistical and ethical. The studies look at how information can be usefully...

Emergency department presentations increased by 4.0% on average each year between 2008-09 and 2012-13, this report finds. ow many emergency department presentations were there? More than 6.7 million emergency department presentations were reported by public hospital emergency departments in 2012-13, corresponding to just over 18,000 presentations each day. Emergency department presentations increased by 4.0% on...