The examination of communications infrastructure and service take-up undertaken in this report is intended to provide an overview of infrastructure and service availability across Australia in residential and small business retail markets.The Communications Infrastructure and Services Availability Report 2006-07 is a joint report issued by ACMA and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The...

The majority (85%) of Australia's 1,187 discrete Indigenous communities were in very remote localities, according to the ABS 2006 Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey (CHINS) released April 17, 2007. Almost three-quarters (73%) of discrete Indigenous communities reported a population of less than 50 people. Other aspects of the study report on access to infrastructure...

Indigenous Australians needing accommodation face a number of problems including: • a lack of public housing; little or no private rental housing; and limited opportunity for home ownership • a series of failures of Indigenous housing programmes resulting in poorly targeted and inappropriate housing • CHIP funding being used as a substitute for mainstream public...

According to this study, the Council of Australian Governments' National Reform Agenda has the potential to significantly raise national output and incomes in Australia. The study examines the benefits potentially available in the long term from further enhancing competition in key infrastructure areas, reducing regulatory burdens on business, achieving more cost-effective health services and raising...

Most goods produced and consumed in the Australian economy are transported at some stage. With Australia’s dispersed population and production centres, the efficiency of freight transport and infrastructure are important ingredients in overall productivity performance and will continue to be, particularly as the freight task is projected at least to double over the next 20...