This evaluation found users of the national collections for Elective Surgery Waiting Times regarded the data as highly useful and highly important. It recommends collections continue, and coverage be improved to increase the proportion of public elective surgery episodes included in the collections. The report also recommends work to clarify what constitutes elective surgery and...

AT FIRST, after my plane touched down in Far North Queensland, I couldn’t see much evidence of either financial or climatic turbulence. Towering banks of purple-grey cloud clung to the forested slopes that surround Cairns, but there wasn’t even a tail wind from cyclone Hamish, which was whipping up ferocious seas to the south. My...

In this interim report of the inquiry into the conduct of the 2007 election, the committee examines two electronic voting trials: a trial of electronically assisted voting for blind and vision impaired electors and a trial of remote electronic voting for selected Australian Defence Force personnel serving overseas.

Using data from 191 Australian state elections, the authors test how voters respond to economic conditions. They find that unemployment has a strong impact on election outcomes, with each additional percentage point of unemployment reducing the incumbent's re-election probability by 3-5 per cent. However, when luck (unemployment in other states) is separated from competence (unemployment...

This paper examines use of the internet by candidates in the 2007 Australian national election, as informed by the content analysis of 217 candidates' web presence and matched survey data. Using electorate statistics and comparisons with the 2004 election, the paper shows: an incremental but stochastic adoption of online media that defies the centralised tendencies...