The review contains the Commission's latest quantitative estimates of Australian Government assistance to industry and documents the findings of the major reviews dealing with export assistance, innovation policy, and assistance to the automotive and the textiles, clothing and footwear sectors. The review also look at developments in assistance in different sectors of the economy over...

This issues paper outlines the Australian Government’s approach to consumer policy, as well as existing Australian Government support for consumer advocacy and consumer policy research. It raises issues in relation to finding sustainable approaches to supporting consumer advocacy and consumer policy-focused research in the medium to long term. Interested parties are invited to submit comments...

Implementation of the recommendations of the Review of Australian Higher Education will drive Australian recovery and growth, and provide increases in future skills, productivity, exports and GDP, according to this report.

The vision of the National Mental Health Policy 2008 is for a mental health system that: enables recovery prevents and detects mental illness early ensures that all Australians with a mental illness can access effective and appropriate treatment and community support to enable them to participate fully in the community. The National Mental Health Policy...

This report describes the transformation of Japanese security policy, legislation and force structure in recent years by which Japan has sought to become 'a normal country' as 'Heisei militarization'. As a consequence, Tanter argues, that status of 'normal', as with comparable countries like Britain and France, "involves the capacity and willingness to consider the use...