The Government has released its response to the Competition Policy Review ('the Harper Review').

This paper examines the ongoing strategic competition and rivalry between India and China, suggesting it can be seen as a ‘New Great Game’, with parallels to the original ‘Great Game’ played out between Britain and Russia for control of South and Central Asia in the 19th century. It argues that like the original, the current...

This speech was given by the Chairman of the Productivity Commission to the Australian Competition Policy Summit 2015' Introduction In 2013, the Australian Government announced that there would be the first comprehensive review of competition policy in Australia in a generation. A policy field more actively used in Australia than in perhaps any other developed...

In the absence of a global agreement to reduce emissions, Australia has adopted a carbon taxunilaterally to curb its own emissions.

This is the first comprehensive review of Australia’s competition laws and policy in over 20 years. The National Competition Policy Review (The Hilmer Review) of 1993 underpinned the development of the National Competition Policy – a co-operative initiative of the Commonwealth and State and Territory governments that the Productivity Commission found contributed to a surge...