"The future is in our hands, and it will be defined by the way we handle the current minerals boom. Get it wrong, and we falter. Get it right, and we set the nation up for decades to come."Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard

Drawn from the 2009-10 Survey of Income and Housing, this publications presents estimates of the income and other characteristics of households and persons resident in private dwellings and of the distribution of income across the population. The economic wellbeing of individuals is largely determined by their command over economic resources. People's income and reserves of...

This report presents findings from a segmentation analysis that used data from the 2008 ANZ Survey of Adult Financial Literacy in Australia. The project profiles the population into segments based on personal money management attitudes and behaviours. The findings are designed to help policy makers better understand how money is managed in Australia, to inform...

In this address to the session 'Managing the Growth Shock' at the Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne on 30 June 2011, Gary Banks discusses the role for policy in the current mining boom. "Australia’s past reform successes have generally been founded on a clear understanding of problems warranting policy solutions. Where policy initiatives...

In 2009-10, Australian Government budgetary outlays, tax concessions and import tariffs provided Australian industry with $17.3 billion in assistance in gross terms, according to this latest annual review. Trade and Assistance Review 2009-10 was released on 16 June 2011. The review contains the Commission's latest quantitative estimates of Australian Government assistance to industry. According to...