Middle class welfare has been a controversial issue in policy debates in Australia in recent years. The research examined in the paper suggests that the issues relating to middle class welfare are more complex than generally suggested in the various debates on this topic in Australia and overseas.

The Australian Apprenticeships Roundtable provides a forum for Australian Apprentices, as key users of the national training system, to inform governments about issues affecting their training and careers.

This new Defence White Paper explains how the Government plans to strengthen the foundations of Australia's defence. It sets out the Government's plans for Defence for the next few years, and how it will achieve those plans. It provides an indication of the level of resources that the Government is planning to invest in Defence...

This report looks at issues and policy which impinge most directly on men's health, and at the need to support research and provide good clinical care and education and awareness campaigns that seek to improve men's understanding of their health. The inquiry was established to examine general issues related to the availability and effectiveness of...

Delaying action to mitigate climate change increases the risk that adverse climate change impacts, including possibly irreversible changes, will occur before greenhouse gas concentrations can be stabilised at a desired level, according to this research paper. The likely consequences of unmitigated climate change present serious risks to our environment and consequently to our socioeconomic productivity...