This report contains the findings of the Productivity Commission's public inquiry into national competition policy. Released with the report was the supplement, Modelling Impacts of Infrastructure Industry Change over the 1990s. Released 14 April 2005

Governments, planners and analysts across Australia agree that mode shift from the automobile to walking, cycling and public transport is desirable for environmental, social and health reasons, but in all our major cities trends are heading in the opposite direction. Various remedies have been proposed, but all have their drawbacks. Road pricing, for example, is...

The international community founded the United Nations in 1945 as the centrepiece of an ambitious institutional strategy to prevent the recurrence of world war, global depression, and massive humanitarian crises. Sixty years later the world is again confronting multiple governance challenges, none of which can be met through unilateral or bilateral means alone, and the...

This paper summarises data on public opinion in Australia regarding taxation and social issues. It finds that several surveys have identified a long term trend of declining concern about taxation but rising concern for issues such as health and education and a greater preparedness for taxes to rise to fund services. Overall, these findings suggest...

This report focuses on the organisational demography of peak bodies, some of the challenges to their roles in policy making, democratic citizenship and representation.