Provides quarterly statistics and trend data on the supply of major fuel types, electricity generation and its associated greenhouse gas emissions, and liquid fuel prices. Summary The New Zealand Energy Quarterly provides quarterly statistics and trend data on the supply of major fuel types, electricity generation and its associated greenhouse gas emissions, and liquid fuel...

Australians are paying too much for power. Over the past five years, the average household power bill has risen 85 per cent. The prices you pay are also unfair: some people are paying too much, others too little. It’s to do with electricity networks catering for peak demand power and the way they charge customers...

Summary: In the year to August 2014, food prices increased 0.7 percent, following a 0.1 percent decrease in the year to July 2014. Higher annual prices for restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food (up 2.4 percent) were influenced by increases for both ready-to-eat food (up 2.9 percent) and restaurant meals (up 1.7 percent). Meat, poultry, and...

This research into Australians' use of mobile applications explores user sentiment towards paying for features and services and data privacy in the app ecosystem. Introduction Observation of overseas attention to issues of in-app information privacy and purchase issues suggested the potential for consumers to be affected by apps’ access to information on devices, and by...

Summary: This briefing paper provides an overview of wholesale and retail gas prices in New South Wales and more broadly in the eastern Australian Market. The specific causes of gas price movements over recent years are discussed, as are consumption and supply forecasts. Note that this paper does not deal with debates around the environmental...