Held in Melbourne in February 2007, this conference was an exploration of policy proposals designed to assist people in making transitions across the life course. The focus was on social investment and an investigation into how such ideas can translate into an updated participation income - or guaranteed minimum income - proposal. Sir Tony Atkinson...

The ACCC is 'perplexed' by Telstra's announcement that it has decided unilaterally to discontinue talks over its proposed fibre-to-the-node network upgrade, according to the ACCC chair, Graeme Samuel.

This 2005 survey collected opinions across the business spectrum including SRI practitioners, institutional investors, related stakeholders, and interested government departments. These results provide an understanding of the instruments that key industry members believe are most likely to encourage the widespread uptake of SRI.

Expenditure on plant and machinery has traditionally been seen as an indicator of future economic growth and productivity. But in the age of high technology, investment in an economy's knowledge base could be as important. Key areas include investment in research and development, in software and in human capital (measured by expenditure on higher education)...

In the United Kingdom and the European Union, social policy is losing its economic rationalist spots at an increasingly rapid pace. Today a number of writers have been searching for a way to name just what it is that is taking its place. In this paper Daniel Perkins, Lucy Nelms and Paul Smyth introduce the...