An advertisement by the National Tertiary Education Union claims there are almost twice as many university students per teacher now than there were a generation ago.

This paper examines the trade relationship between the state of New South Wales and the European Union, and has an added section specifically focusing on trade with the United Kingdom. In earlier e-briefs, the NSW Parliamentary Research Service examined the trading relationship between NSW and the emerging economies of China and India, and with the...

The ACTU’s insecure work inquiry should be welcomed by all interested in our long term prosperity, writes Michael Horn, from the Brotherhood of St Laurence.

The last two decades in Australia has seen a dramatic decline in permanent work, and corresponding growth of insecure forms of employment, such as casual, contract work and labour hire. The full extent and impact of this shift on workers, their families and the Australian community has never been formally investigated.

There is an historic opportunity to reform our school funding arrangements and a school funding system which is one of the most complex, opaque and confusing in the developed world, argues this submission. This submission provides further evidence to the Review of Funding for Schooling in response to the key areas outlined in the December...