This report covers injuries resulting in admission to Australian hospitals in the financial year 2007–08. It provides analysis of community injury, that is, injuries typically sustained in the home, workplace, street, etc. The report also includes short sections on work and sports related injury, complications of surgical and medical care and residual injury such as...

This report, covering injuries resulting in admission to Australian hospitals in the financial year 2006–07. The focus of the report is analysis of community injury (that is, injuries typically sustained in the home, workplace, street, etc.). The report also includes short sections on work and sports related injury, complications of surgical and medical care and...

This report covering injuries resulting in admission to Australian hospitals in the financial year 2008–09. It provides analysis of community injury, that is, injuries typically sustained in the home, workplace, street, etc. The report also includes short sections on work and sports related injury, complications of surgical and medical care and residual injury such as...

After years of highly charged political and public debate on tackling climate change, Australia started taxing carbon emissions on 1 July 2012. Under the carbon tax, Australia’s biggest carbon emitting companies will pay a fixed-price levy on their carbon emissions for three years. At the end of this period, the carbon tax will transition to...

When Activity-Based Funding (ABF) for public hospitals begins on 1 July this year, it should make it easier for hospitals to establish Hospital in the Home (HITH) services. The pricing framework underpinning the ABF system stipulates that public hospital services should be priced in a way that facilitates the timely roll-out of evidence-based innovations in...