This report summarises the feedback from consultation with stakeholders including a broad range of Sector organisations, state and territory governments, peak bodies, academics and individuals. Initial consultation in 2008 clarified that there was support for a National Compact as a means to address issues impeding productive working relationships between the Government and the Sector. Further...

The report presents the council‘s assessment of progress against 2008–09 milestones as at 30 September 2009. The National Partnership Agreement to Deliver a Seamless National Economy sets out an ambitious and complex array of microeconomic reforms. Positively, the COAG Reform Council has found that there has been good or generally satisfactory progress against 18 of...

This positioning paper is the first product of a research project which is investigating the links between planning policies and housing outcomes. The project is an investigation into whether changes to land use planning policies and mechanisms impact on the types of housing supplied, particularly in new release areas. It examines details of both planning...

This report summarises the feedback from consultation with stakeholders including a broad range of sector organisations, state and territory governments, peak bodies, academics and individuals. The federal government sees the Compact is an opportunity for the government and the sector to develop a new way of working together to address key social, economic and environmental...

Wide-ranging reforms are needed to remove unnecessary burdens and costs faced by the not-for-profit sector and improve its accountability, according to this report. Better regulation, improved funding arrangements and enhanced opportunities for innovation would improve outcomes for the community and the public's confidence in the sector.The proposed reforms would directly address concerns about the multiplicity...