What are politicians saying at this Federal election in relation to seniors from multicultural backgrounds? As part of The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria’s (ECCV) policy advocacy on behalf of seniors from non-English speaking backgrounds, ECCV wrote letters to the Greens, Australian Labor Party, and Liberal Party of Australia asking each party five questions in...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released a discussion paper on proposed changes to its general insurance statistical publications. APRA proposes to publish more general insurance statistics, including data recently determined non-confidential. In doing so, APRA intends to improve the relevance of APRA’s statistics to users, and address feedback in stakeholder surveys and other...

The Four Year Plan is intended to be read in conjunction with our refreshed Strategic Intentions. The refreshed Strategic Intentions were endorsed by the Prime Minister and our Portfolio Ministers, and published in October 2015. Refer to Annex four for a copy which sets out: Our high level strategic direction for the next four years...

Because their aims are educational and democratic, what think tanks do and why they do it is entirely transparent. Summary Because their aims are educational and democratic, what think tanks do and why they do it is entirely transparent: they ensure their research is publically available and seek to ensure it is disseminated via the...

We suggest that the conflation of culture with creative industries since 1997 has harmed both cultural policy and creative industries policy in the UK. We propose that an official definition of the cultural sector and the production of government statistics to support such a definition will help to clarify creative industries policy and create a...