This report highlights that Sydney and Melbourne are driving the national economy. Summary Australian cities are orphans. Responsibilities for their economic management falls between all tiers of government. Official statistics do not publish economic data at city level, and when published, are given a secondary importance. This is despite the fact that even during the...

Abstract This paper uses data from the Australian Census Longitudinal Data set to conduct the first representative analysis of labour force transitions for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The main finding is that Indigenous females and males are more than 10 percentage points more likely than their non-Indigenous counterparts to move from employment in 2006 to...

The Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 (RSR Act) required a review of its operation be conducted in the second half of 2015. The review was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and completed in January 2016 to account for the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal’s most recent order issued on 18 December 2015.

WHEN Camilla Pivato walked around Melbourne on her first day in Australia she felt she was finally in the right place. “I just fell in love with Australia and the Australian way of life,” she tells me by Skype from Rimini, on the Adriatic Coast. “It’s a really, really happy country and coming from Italy...

Summary The housing market has been the driving force behind the NSW economy’s recent resurgence – driving dwelling investment, generating wealth and catalysing household consumption growth. The first half of the year saw the median house price in Sydney breach the million dollar mark. Even though annual house price growth was recorded at 12.8% in...