One of four reports commissioned by the Review of Funding for Schooling, this paper compares Australia's education system with international standards. It identifies its strengths and weaknesses and makes recommendations for improvement. Australia’s school system is among the better performing systems in the world. Taken as a national average, our children at age 15 are...

This report looks at the potential for emissions reductions across the energy, transport, agriculture, land use and forestry and waste and industrial sectors. It provides important guidance on areas for future focus and trade-offs associated with different options.

Will Sanders examines elections for the 18 local governments in the Torres Strait in both 2000 and 2004, focusing on changes in political leadership and a possible emerging change in political style in Torres Strait.

Will Sanders argues that Indigenous community governance is as much about process as about structures and that dispersed governance has benefits as well as costs. In doing so he challenges some common assumptions of would-be reformers of Indigenous community governance.

Will Sanders analyses 2001 Census data relating to Indigenous people living in the Alice Springs town camps as compared to three other population groups: Indigenous people in the rest of Alice Springs, non-Indigenous people in Alice Springs and Indigenous people living in the outlying communities of the region around Alice Springs. He identifies inadequacies in...