Using the latest available data published by the Australian Taxation Office for the 2006–07 income year, this background note looks at levels of philanthropy, or more specifically, tax deductible giving in Australia. The note focuses in particular on how levels of giving, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of taxable income, vary between...

This research paper on foreign debt is the fourth update of a Parliamentary Library paper originally published in September 1989. The objectives of the paper are to provide statistical information on: the levels of gross and net foreign debt; comparisons over time; the interest liability on foreign debt; composition of foreign debt by institutional sector...

Around 70 per cent of Australian households own or are purchasing their home. The rate of home ownership has remained remarkably stable at this level for over four decades according to data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its Census of Population and Housing and its Survey of Income and Housing (SIH). The...

This paper presents a number of tables and charts that allow comparisons to be made between individual Australian states and territories in terms of their performance across a wide range of social and economic indicators. Each table has data for the last five years, while each chart presents data for the latest year that data...

This research paper summarises the performance of the economy during each administration from Whitlam through to Howard by providing period averages across a range of economic indicators. Though this approach has its limitations, it provides a useful overview and means of comparing the different administrations.