ACFID has now released its submission to the 2012-13 Federal Budget: Helping People Overcome Poverty: Investing in Community Solutions. The submission contains 26 recommendations gathered from the knowledge and input of ACFID Member Agencies and covers the four-year period to 2015-16, when the aid budget is set to reach 0.5% of Australia's Gross National Income...

In 2008 the Australian Government began a five-year national rollout of the Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) that would see it delivered in 50 communities across Australia by 2012.

This paper finds that a price floor is well suited to addressing policy generated carbon price risk as domestic and international policy frameworks mature, reducing the risk of unintended low carbon prices.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) provided support for this feasibility study, which outlines one possible approach to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) on returns to public investment in R&D. The aim is to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model developments...

The report provides an up to date analysis of the pay-back of the significant investment by the Australian Government and business community in HMR in Australia. The Lateral Economics report indicates that if health and medical research spending were to atleast keep pace with historical spending on health over the decade and a half to...