This bulletin summarises what is known about rheumatoid arthritis and presents available Australian national statistics on the subject. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease – one where the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues – and thus differs from osteoarthritis which is characterised by wear-and-tear of joints. Joints bear the brunt of autoimmunity in...

This report examines the effects of improvements in Indigenous identification in hospitals data on patterns of hospitalised injury among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. These improvements have resulted in the inclusion of hospital separation data from New South Wales and Victoria in addition to data from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and...

Key Points: The market failure that the National Access Regime should address is a lack of effective competition in markets for infrastructure services due to natural monopoly. This is likely to constitute an economic problem where service providers deny access to, or restrict output and charge monopoly prices for, their facilities and access is required...

Abstract Compiled for two decades by the Australian Institute of Criminology, this report found both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous rates of deaths in custody have decreased over the last decade and are now some of the lowest ever seen (0.16 per 100 Indigenous prisoners and 0.22 per 100 non-Indigenous prisoners in 2010–11). For the last...

During the 2010 election the Gillard Government committed to developing Australia’s first National Food Plan to provide a vision for our food future. The National Food Plan is a roadmap for the future of Australia’s food industry. Australia’s food industry stands at a gateway to new opportunities. To take advantage of these, the National Food...