Summary: This briefing paper provides an overview of wholesale and retail gas prices in New South Wales and more broadly in the eastern Australian Market. The specific causes of gas price movements over recent years are discussed, as are consumption and supply forecasts. Note that this paper does not deal with debates around the environmental...

Overview: This briefing paper provides an overview of wholesale and retail electricity prices in New South Wales and more broadly in the National Electricity Market. The specific causes of electricity price movements over recent years are discussed, as are consumption and supply forecasts. This is the first of a series of companion briefing papers related...

New South Wales has performed strongly and is closing the growth gap on the mining dependent States such as Western Australia, according to this paper. Summary The Australian economy is continuing to show signs of recovery, underpinned by strong growth in resource exports. Activity related to the household sector has also picked up, buoyed by...

Summary: This statistical indicators paper identifies the recent trends in the value, sales and acquisitions of NSW public sector assets, at a whole of government, and individual department and public sector corporation level (selected by order of asset value for the 2012-13 financial year). As a preliminary to that discussion, the paper also presents recent...

This briefing paper analyses, at a theoretical level, the potential economic benefits of secondary airport competition in the Sydney context. Introduction On the 3rd April 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published their latest airport monitoring report which found that Sydney Airport had again performed the worst across a number of areas in...