This collection of essays provides the first substantial introduction to Australia’s evolving engagement with Latin America. Abstract This is a good time to reflect on opportunities and challenges for Australia in Latin America. Impressive economic growth and opportunities for trade and investment have made Latin America a dynamic area for Australia and the Asia Pacific...

This paper reveals that Indigenous businesses have substantially better outcomes for Indigenous employment than non-Indigenous businesses and documents how Indigenous employment is concentrated in larger businesses in particular industry sectors.

This paper examines Papua New Guinea's track record in assessing and resettling asylum seekers, its current obligations under the 2013 Regional Resettlement Arrangement, and the sustainability of this arrangement. Introduction In the lead-up to the Australian Federal Election in September 2013, public attention focused dramatically on Papua New Guinea (PNG) in terms of the joint...

To design policies that maximise the chances that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) students will attend school on a given day, it is important to have a detailed understanding of how Indigenous students make the decision about whether to attend. In this paper, four data sets are analysed to shed light on the attendance...

This paper summarizes views on the superannuation system and its regulation collected through interviews of fund executives.