In making this submission, we hope to assist The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in developing a methodology for valuing Public Sector Information (PSI) and to contribute to the current draft and design of proposed subsequent agency and user survey questionnaires. To that end, we extend the literature survey presented in The OAIC's...

This paper focuses on lending to households in Australia and particularly on the largest household debt market - the one trillion dollar home loan market which constitutes around sixty percent of Australian banks’ assets.

Public–private partnerships have turned out to be an expensive way of plugging gaps, writes Nicholas Gruen on Inside Story.

The final report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce led by Nicholas Gruen. The use of the internet as a platform for collaboration is already transforming our economy and our lives. Whole industries and sectors are being refashioned by this phenomenon of Web 2.0. Citizens are being empowered to express themselves, organise and collaborate in myriad...

State government debt can be a force for good, argues Nicholas Gruen, as the Unsworth committee looks again at NSW electricity privatisation.