Highlights This report presents information on diabetes-related deaths in Australia between 2001 and 2003 using death certificate data. The term ‘diabetes-related deaths’ is used in this analysis to refer to deaths where diabetes was considered to have been either the primary (underlying), or a contributory (associated) cause of death when the underlying cause of death...

Countries participating in the first East Asia Summit will be the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. In this e-brief Frank Frost and Ann Rann provide...

The commission has commenced a public inquiry into the policy framework and incentives for the conservation of Australia’s historic built heritage places. An issues paper is available online.

This inquiry proposes measures to regulate government advertising. The report includes a minority report from government senators.

This committee reviewed the operation, effectiveness and implications of Division 3 of Part III in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979. The sunset clause for this provision comes into operation on 22 July 2006. This report is intended to inform the reintroduction of the Act next year prior to the sunset clause.