All peoples around the world have stories that honour the waters that surround coastlines, flow over lands and pool in valleys. Indigenous peoples do too. This Māori prayer above inspires a call for governments to ‘rise up’ to legislate for the values, rights and interests of Indigenous peoples to once again enable caring for waters...

This annual report provides a snapshot of the 2015–16 year for the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner. Some of the ACMA's highlights for the year include: Registration of a new Commercial Television Code of Practice in November 2015; Report on the place of citizens and consumers in...

Introduction Statistics are widely used in the development and evaluation of social policy. Closing the Gap indicators, studies on the effectiveness of drugs being considered for inclusion in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), analyses of National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results and the evaluation of welfare interventions such as income management all include statistics...

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has been reviewing the quality of local government policy advice for the past four years and this paper looks at the progress being made in improving the quality of advice.

Given the changing policy environment in VET, NCVER considered it timely to look at the policy developments and participation trends over the last 20 years. This occasional paper examines two broad policy trends, the extension of the apprenticeship and traineeship system, and the opening up of the training market, as well as three specific policy...