For decades, researchers in HASS have endured a funding system that assesses their work through a narrow prism of quantity: How many papers? How much grant money? How many research students? This project set out to find a fairer way to evaluate research, by focusing on the quality and impact of the diverse outputs of...

The Council has adopted all 16 recommendations of the Scoping Study Reference Group, which was set up to propose directions for the support and development of creative communities, and has recognised that the most innovative element of the report was the proposal for the Australia Council to develop and adopt a Creative Communities Strategy. This...

This research paper analyses the financial performance of various GTEs, most of which are owned by state and territory governments. It finds that aggregate profitability increased in the electricity, water and urban transport sectors in 2004-05 compared with 2003-04, but declined in the railways, forestry and ports sectors.

This background note details the approach taken in various Australian and overseas parliaments to codes of conduct for ministers and MPs. In 2009, for various reasons, the conduct of ministers and members of parliament has been the subject of much media attention. The Australian and United Kingdom governments have conducted major reviews of entitlements paid...

Senators and members of the Australian parliament receive an annual allowance by way of basic salary – $118,950 from 1 July 2006. Leanne Manthorpe explains the legislative basis, fixing and linking mechanisms for the allowance, and provides details of changes in the allowance since 1984.