Among its key recommendations, this report calls for: • Simplification and streamlining: the Privacy Act and related laws and regulations are highly detailed and complex, making it difficult for businesses to understand their obligations and for individuals to know their rights. A basic restructuring of the Act is required, focused on high-level principles of general...

This paper describes some of the main achievements to date by Australian institutions in addressing climate change. It then proposes a principled framework through which these and other relevant ideas, initiatives, policies and measures may be organised and rationalised. It also speculates on some policy areas awaiting further development, either in the short or longer...

Unemployment, and in particular youth unemployment, is one of the most significant economic and social issues facing the Illawarra region. Whilst the official youth unemployment statistics can be debated from one month to the next, what is clear is that for at least the past two decades our region’s young people have experienced a consistently...

In this talk at the Manning Clark House Weekend of Ideas, the acting director of The Australia Institute posits that, without any evident philosophical reflection, a series of changes to character tests under Australian law testify to the fact that in this country, character is increasingly destiny.

New political expenditure disclosure rules, aimed at organisations that run no candidates in elections but may nevertheless influence public opinion, could have a 'chilling effect' on political expression.New political expenditure disclosure rules, aimed at organisations that run no candidates in elections but may nevertheless influence public opinion, could have a 'chilling effect' on political expression...