There is much anticipation about the future of school funding with proposed new arrangements for school funding scheduled to be presented to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in April this year. The meeting will be the culmination of the latest iteration of the debate about school funding that has been ongoing since the...

The 2013 strategy details how Australia can position itself for growth in the Asian century, in a competitive global environment, where technology and patterns of work are rapidly changing. To underpin the 2013 strategy AWPA developed scenarios to create plausible future worlds for Australia to 2025. These scenarios have in turn influenced economic modelling of...

The National Health Performance Authority began operations in 2012 as an independent body to provide locally relevant and nationally consistent information on the performance of hospitals and other health care organisations. This report, the Authority’s second, allows for the first time the public, clinicians and health managers to see results for both use and experience...

Healthy for Life (HfL) Program was established with a set of key objectives to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It focuses on mothers, babies and children; early detection and management of chronic disease; and long-term health outcomes. About 100 primary health-care sites across Australia were funded by the Australian Government...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority is undertaking a review of the Telecommunications Service Provider (Premium Services) Determination 2004 (No. 1) (Premium Services Determination). The Premium Services Determination requires that all carriage service providers who provide access to premium services on numbers with the prefixes 1900, 1901 and 1902 that have not been barred must...