This report presents the results of a project worked in Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory to develop and trial 'water planning tools' that can be adapted to suit a range of conditions and that will enable better planning and management of Australia's water resources. Tools were selected for trial to address the main...

This report presents the latest data on adoptions by Australian families, and highlights important national trends in adoptions over the last few decades. Data for this report were obtained from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Adoptions Australia data collection. This data collection is a record of all finalised adoptions in Australia since...

During 2008-09, there were 441 adoptions across Australia (one more than in 2007-08): - 61% were intercountry adoptions, 15% were local and 24% were 'known' child adoptions - 71% of all intercountry adoptions were from China, South Korea, the Philippines and Ethiopia - 71% of adopted children were aged less than 5 years. This report...

If the United States is to achieve the promise of the broadband revolution it will need to ensure that a much larger share of Americans are subscribers. This report examines whether programs intended to stimulate broadband adoption have fulfilled their purpose. 'Our focus is on quantitative evaluations that seek to measure the causal impact of...

Since the early 1970s, there has been a 22-fold decrease in the number of adoptions in Australia, according to this report.'Adoptions Australia 2007-08', the 18th report in the series, presents the latest data on adoptions of Australian children and children from overseas, and highlights important trends in the number of adoptions over the last three...