The SBS Corporation is Australia's multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster. It was established to define, foster and celebrate Australia's cultural diversity in accordance with obligations in its Charter. to ‘provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society'. Rhonda Jolly provides...

The Ombudsman is investigating over 200 cases of suspected unwarranted detention under the Migration Act. These reports on sixteen of the cases were tabled in Parliament 21 March 2007; the government's responses to the recommendations are also provided.

This report into Australia’s relationship with Malaysia is tabled in the year which marks 50 years since Malaysia achieved independence. Current links between Australia and Malaysia are multifaceted and occur at many levels, from formal government and Parliamentary relations, through the interactions between organisations, to the informal interactions between individuals. This report looks at the...

The Australian broadband network continues to grow rapidly despite the current "noise and bluster" about telecommunications competition and access regulation, according to the ACCC chair, Graeme Samuel, in this speech at the ATUG Annual Conference in Sydney.

This paper examines Australia's future productivity growth prospects and, specifically, whether it is feasible for Australia to match the performance benchmarks set by other countries now and in the foreseeable future. Key points • International comparisons of productivity at a national level are useful, but should be treated with care. Comparisons of productivity performance are...