This background note offers a brief guide to statistical descriptions of Indigenous Australians' socioeconomic situation. It looks first at the context of inputs and outcomes, then at works that offer overviews or summaries of Indigenous socioeconomic indicators, then at sources for most of the data that is used.

This background note provides a brief overview of the rules for determining the next Commonwealth, state and territory elections. It lists the date of the next election where this is fixed, or, where appropriate, the earliest and latest possible dates on which it may occur.

There have been two introductions of wheat stripe rust into Australia. These introductions may have entered Australia on clothing. The first introduction occurred in Victoria in 1979, and stripe rust rapidly spread across eastern Australia. This original rust mutated, and a number of pathotypes (also known as races or strains) developed enabling the rust to...

A Study into the Teaching of Geography in Years 3-10 discusses current practice in the teaching of geography in Australian schools and factors which affect the quality of teaching and learning of geography. It also investigates the fundamentals that every Australian student should know in the subject before they complete Year 10 and provides a...

This report recommends 45 changes to the handling of claims of client legal privilege over material sought by federal investigatory bodies and royal commissions of inquiry. The inquiry found general support for maintaining privilege as a fundamental right of clients, which only should be abrogated or modified in exceptional circumstances. However, privilege must be balanced...