The annual Report on Government Services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia. This report was progressively released between 27 January and 4 February 2016. This year marks the twenty-first edition of the Report on Government Services. The Report is produced by the Productivity Commission for an inter-governmental...

Foreword “This is a century of ideas, this is a time when Australia’s growth, when our living standards, when our incomes will be determined by the human capital, the intellectual capital that all of us have. By unleashing our innovation, unleashing our imagination, being prepared to embrace change, we usher in the ideas boom.” -...

Labor has launched a new booklet outlining fifty practical policies it will take into the 2016 federal election. A year ago, ALP leader Bill Shorten said Labor would be defined by the power of its ideas and over the course of 2015, the Opposition has rolled out more than fifty practical and positive policies. “These...

The Victorian auditor-general’s criticism of the quality of bureaucratic advice on the contentious East West Link raises broader concerns about the public service

This paper examines the issue of stakeholders and interest groups during the planning policy-making process, with reference to recent planning reforms in the state of New South Wales (NSW).