Key among the report's recommendations is the call for initial funding from the Commonwealth government for the establishment of a stand-alone Centre for Gynaecological Cancers within the auspices of Cancer Australia to provide a national voice for gynaecological cancer issues.

Rhonda Jolly provides an overview of the development of media ownership regulations and the changes wrought by the recently implemented media ownship legislation. The Bill permits cross-media mergers in radio licence areas where sufficient diversity of media groups remains following the mergers. At least five separate media groups will be required to remain in mainland...

This report argues that there is no labour shortage of such seriousness as to threaten the prosperity of the horticultural industry, worth $6.6 billion in 2003-04. It argues that measures to increase the labour force - including allowing seasonal contract labour from the Pacific islands - are not needed at this time. Nonetheless, the committee...

Australians generate solid waste at a high rate compared with most other OECD countries. Technologies and processes to avoid, reduce and recover waste are generally not used as extensively in Australia as in some other OECD countries. Non-optimal levels of waste represent lost value and opportunities, while imposing undesirable economic and environmental costs on society...

Most Australians will be carers at some stage in their lives. Research by Juliet Bourke clearly demonstrates that the financial cost of care affects carers’ employment decisions. In particular, when the cost is perceived to be 'too high' carers are forced to leave the paid workforce, rather than balancing paid work and care. Reforms to...