The starting point for the work reported in this document is the proposition that safe and sufficient transport should be accessible to everyone. About 25,000 people who live in South Australia identify as being Aboriginal. The circumstances and demographic characteristics of this small part of the total population provide reasons to expect that their transport...

In the recent Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper the Rudd Government emphasised that a major part of its efforts to control global gas emissions would be its participation in international negotiations leading to a global agreement on this issue. Australia is party to the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

On 18 August 2008, General Pervez Musharraf resigned as President of Pakistan, the first time in the history of the country that an incumbent president with close ties to the military had opted to resign rather than face the threat of impeachment. This report looks at the events leading up to the resignation and its...

This background paper provides information on Australia's role in the first world war and the evolution of the anniversary observance of the cessation of hostilities.

This report presents the results of the Treasury's economic modelling of the potential economic impacts of reducing emissions over the medium and long term. It spans global, national and sectoral scales, and looks at distributional impacts, such as the implications of emission pricing for the goods and services that households consume. The Treasury's modelling demonstrates...