Fraud can take many forms in the public service. It can be as simple as false entries on an employee’s timesheet or it can be as elaborate as a falsely valued property or lease deal. The major fraud control survey released in 2012 showed that fraud control measures are improving, but there is more work...

In November 2012 the Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts released an issues paper, Making NSW Number 1 Again: Reducing Regulatory Burden (the "2012 Issues Paper"). That paper proposes to repeal six pieces of legislation in the portfolio of Fair Trading, including the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1948 No.25 (the LTA Act). The closing date...

When one considers the range of services and regulatory functions performed by local government, it is not surprising that issues concerned with this third tier of government are never far from the political agenda. These include concerns about governance and accountability, the delivery of infrastructure, revenue and funding arrangements and, at the top end of...

This study has two aims. The first is to investigate whether there has been any change in the characteristics of intimidation in recent years that might inform which types of offences are becoming more common. The second aim is to investigate whether the characteristics of intimidation related to domestic violence (DV) have changed over time...

This statistical indicators publication sets out NSW regional labour force trends on an annual basis for the period January 2008 to January 2013. It uses data from the ABS publication, Labour Force, Australia, Detailed – Electronic Delivery, Jan 2013, which starts in November 2007. Following the methodology adopted by the Department of Education, Employment and...