A recent High Court judgment clarifies the implementation of privatisations and public-private partnerships, writes David Hume for APO.

This paper uses a case study of union power in public transport in Melbourne since the mid 1990s to show that union power remains a significant, though now largely hidden, obstacle to modernisation of the design and delivery of public transport in Australian cities.

State government debt can be a force for good, argues Nicholas Gruen, as the Unsworth committee looks again at NSW electricity privatisation.

This brief, by Luke Buckmaster, considers the historical development of Medibank Private, some legal issues relating to ownership of the fund and some policy arguments for and against the sale.

The purpose of this paper is to attempt an evaluation of the results to date of the Melbourne privatisation process, with a view to establishing whether it represents an improvement over continued government operation.