The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act ) is the main vehicle for planning in NSW. The EP&A Act provides a comprehensive three tier planning scheme, allowing for state, regional and local plans, as well as outlining the development assessment process. Whilst the Act attracted considerable support upon its introduction, nearly twenty years...

It is evident throughout this Paper that national competition policy, and micro-economic reform more generally, have created both winners and losers. One of the major problems is that, whilst the benefits of NCP are generally longer-term and spread more widely amongst the community, the costs of change are often concentrated in a particular area and...

It has been over 10 years since the State Owned Corporations Act 1989 was introduced into Parliament, and five years since major amendments were introduced by the Carr Government in 1995. This paper analyses the differences between types of State owned corporations and, using case studies, looks at the operation of some corporations and the...

The Snowy River has its headwaters in the montane areas of the Snowy Mountains, and flows 380 km to the sea by the Victorian town of Marlo. The River is largely dependent for flow on the catchment above Jindabyne due to a rain shadow effect on the tablelands. For instance, mean annual rainfall varies with...