This report presents progress against indicators in the National Indigenous reform agreement, which sets out the policy framework and the six targets for commonwealth, state and territory governments to close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage in health, education and employment. It is the role of The COAG Reform Council to assess and report on the...

In this report, the council focuses on the outcomes in the Agreement that relate to home purchase affordability, rental affordability, and housing market efficiency and responsiveness. The council found that nationally, based on the indicators and years that can be reported on, there is no indication that housing affordability has improved. Rental affordability in particular...

This report is a first attempt to address this information gap in COAG's efforts to foster more productive cities. It draws together the basis, in theory, for asserting the critical importance of urban agglomeration, and then sets out a (potentially) standard method by which agglomeration economies might be measured across Australian cities using the best...

The report presents the council‘s assessment of progress against 2008–09 milestones as at 30 September 2009. The National Partnership Agreement to Deliver a Seamless National Economy sets out an ambitious and complex array of microeconomic reforms. Positively, the COAG Reform Council has found that there has been good or generally satisfactory progress against 18 of...

This report by the Council of Australian Governments’ National Reform Initiative Working Group makes a series of recommendations in relation to workforce participation and productivity and increased prevention and early intervention within the health system. The recommendations were largely adopted by the COAG meeting in February 2006.