This report investigates the degree to which participation in the labour force may increase with the rollout of the National Broadband Network and the increased telework opportunities it will provide. This study involved qualitative and quantitative research, leading to economic modelling to estimate the impacts of NBN-enabled telework on labour force participation, employment and Gross...

In this report Daniel Mookhey argues that Australia is splitting into three economies, which are increasingly inequitable, and unnecessarily adversarial. Government needs to encourage consensus, not conflict, to ensure Australia’s ongoing prosperity. The notion of a multitrack economy in Australia has become clichéd: ‘two-speed’, ‘patchwork’ – there’s no end to the labels bandied around. But...

This report looks into online security, in terms of public and private sectors and where new regulations need to be introduced. The Australian Internet Security Initiative (AISI) is administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to assist AISI participants address the problem of computers that are ‘compromised’ by malware (or malicious software). Malware...

This report makes the economic case for flexible copyright exceptions and extended safe harbour provisions.

This book showcases a range of ‘out-of-school’ youth learning contexts in remote Australia, to analyse the factors that enable positive learning and to provide some working principles for facilitating and supporting effective youth learning in the remote Indigenous context. The Lifespan Learning and Literacy for Young Adults in Remote Indigenous Communities (2007–2010), later known as...