From 1 July 2010 the government will replace the R&D Tax Concession with a simplified R&D Tax Credit, with tighter eligibility criteria. This paper argues that the reformed scheme will provide more generous support for R&D to help build a more innovative economy. It also poses a range of questions to business about how the...

This supplement to the July 2009 report Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books addresses matters raised in a recent paper commissioned by the Australian Publishers Association.

It is time for concrete, demonstrable action to break down the current international stalemate and achieve a world without nuclear weapons, according to this report.

Emissions trading gets a lot of bad press. James Hansen, a leading advocate for climate change legislation, has rejected emissions trading altogether in favour of a carbon tax. In an open letter delivered on 29 December 2008 to then President-Elect Obama, Dr Hansen described cap-and-trade schemes as ‘ineffectual and not commensurate with the climate threat’...

The new National Indigenous Languages Policy is aimed at keeping Indigenous languages alive and supporting Indigenous Australians to connect with their language, culture and country.