The ABF had its suspicions that different approaches to infrastructure could lead to greater economic benefits for three of Australia's most well-established industrial regions. This report is the end result of a two-year action research project involving key infrastructure experts and stakeholders. The project takes a wider angle on infrastructure and identifies a small number...

The referral of power by the states to the Commonwealth was effective in "fixing" the Corporations Law by replacing it with the Corporations Act. But it has proved to be no more than a stop-gap measure, doing nothing to remedy the fact that the constitution, as interpreted by the High Court, no longer provides an...

Terrorism and the Law in Australia is in two parts: Supporting Materials contains a series of documents on specific issues related to legislative and administrative arrangements.

The passage of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 1999 involved a fundamental revision of Commonwealth environmental law and has potentially wide ranging application to some areas of private land. This Research Note discusses the thresholds of operation of the Act in relation to listed threatened species and ecological communities.

Abstract: As sport is now practiced on a worldwide basis, the fight against doping is an international problem and the solution to it must necessarily be international or the level playing field, which is fundamental to sport, cannot exist. There must be national building blocks in arriving at the solution, but, unless there is an...