Markets are already making a significant contribution to increasing rural water-use efficiency. But further reform is needed to ensure that water continually moves to wherever it has the highest value to society (including its value in environmental uses). This study examines the feasibility of establishing market mechanisms to encourage economic efficiency of rural water use...

In an address to the Australian Parliamentary Group for Drug Law Reform, Andrew Macintosh discusses recent trends in domestic drug markets and what they say about the effectiveness of current drug policies. In particular three illicit drugs: cannabis, heroin and ethamphetamines as they provide insights into different aspects of the effects of prohibition and have...

This is the background paper by Stephen Ziguras, Mark Considine, Linda Hancock and Brian Howe for this week's conference, From Risk to Opportunity: Labour Markets in Transition, which is part of a project exploring new institutional arrangements in the area of social policy to cope with structural change in both labour markets and household formation...

The Committee for Economic Development Australia has published this collection of papers from the From Risk to Opportunity: Labour Markets in Transition project based in the CPP. This report includes the following papers: A New Social Settlement: Reshaping Australian social policy in the changing areas of work, family and welfare; Transitions between employment, caring and...

Group training organisations act as intermediaries between enterprises and apprentices and trainees to facilitate on- and off-the-job training. This report examines the role of these organisations in Australia's labour market. The authors find that, at their best, they help promote sustainable work-based learning solutions by sharing the risks associated with employment and gaining new skills...