In February 2008, Kate Ellis, Minister for Youth, invited universities, students, small business, sports and community groups to help inform the government on the impact of the current VSU policy. This discussion paper canvasses the issues. Minister Ellis will also meet with representatives from universities, students, small business, sports and community groups from across Australia...

The Commonwealth's Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (the Act) commenced on 1 January 2003. The Act provides a scheme to trace, restrain and confiscate the proceeds of certain classes of crime against Commonwealth law. In some circumstances it can also be used to confiscate the proceeds of crime against foreign law or the proceeds of...

Digital radio services will commence in the six state capital cities from 1 January, 2009. Submissions by interested stakeholders on the proposed access regime are invited by the ACCC.The ACCC has issued draft legislative instruments, decision-making criteria and procedural rules seeking stakeholders' views on the access regime that will apply to digital radio. Interested stakeholders...

The Migration Act requires that a non-citizen who is detained is liable to pay the Australian government the costs of his or her detention. This liability includes costs for the transportation of the person to and from an immigration detention centre and the daily maintenance amount for each day the person spends in detention. In...

The government is committed to the establishment of a Register of Lobbyists that will enable ministers and other government representatives who are approached by third party lobbyists to establish whose interests the lobbyist represents. The Register will be a public document and third party lobbyists will be required to ensure that they supply and regularly...