In this background paper to its current inquiry, the commission describes the history of sedition, outlines the current state of the federal law on sedition and unlawful associations, and outlines the position in the states and territories. It surveys the relevant international laws and considers their influence on Australian law, and sets out the key...

In this speech to the Australian Broadcasting Summit, ACMA’s recently appointed chair, Chris Chapman, outlines the purpose and direction of the new organisation, discusses a number of contemporary issues relevant to the broadcasting sector and and briefly raises what the authority sees to be a number of emerging issues.

This report contains the commission’s latest quantitative estimates of Australian government budgetary assistance to industry. It also discusses recent developments in tariff, budgetary and other assistance in a range of sectors of the economy over the past year, and some recent international policy developments affecting Australia‘s trade.

The public sector’s share of total employment fell from 26 per cent in 1984 to 16 per cent in 2005, amounting to 940,000 fewer jobs in the public sector. While all levels of government have lost employment share, the Commonwealth is the only sector to have also experienced a decline in absolute job numbers. Tony...

This paper presents the results of research undertaken in the Productivity Commission’s Environment and Resource Economics Branch during 2005. It is part of a larger suite of water policy research conducted by the Commission, including modelling of regional economic impacts of changes in water trade within the southern Murray–Darling Basin.