The NSW Workers Compensation Scheme has experienced many reforms over the past three decades. These changes have largely been made in response to fluctuations in the financial position of the Scheme. The most recent major reforms were enacted in 2001 when the Scheme had a deficit of over $2 billion. As outlined in a 2001...

The Reserve Bank has identified a number of major influences on the Australian economy at present: sovereign debt problems in Europe; changes in household spending patterns; softness in the housing market; the investment and terms of trade boom (business investment rose about 20% in the last year); and the high exchange rate. The Australian economy...

This paper identifies and describes the many committees of inquiry appointed by the first Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales in the first half of the nineteenth century. The work contains not only a comprehensive record of all the select committees in the first Legislative Council, listing committee members and witnesses examined...

This paper outlines the present system of judicial appointments in NSW and other Australian jurisdictions. It also summarises the debate about the appointments process and looks at recent discussion papers and reports in NSW and other Australian jurisdictions. In addition, an overview is presented of the judicial appointments system in the UK, and of recent...

This paper examines the regions of Murrumbidgee and Murray and asseses the implications of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The Murrumbidgee and Murray regions are one of Australia's recognised food bowls, growing and processing a significant proportion of all fruit and vegetables in NSW. For example, in 2005-06 the Murrumbidgee and Murray regions produced 66% and...