Environmental policy making and its implementation has in the main suffered from a lack of credible review and evaluation. This has resulted in a generally poor understanding of policy effectiveness, or success, especially in terms of outcomes achieved and their linkages to the policies that underpin them.

The federal government has asked the Productivity Commission to examine and report on the relative performance of the public and private hospital systems, and related data issues. This issues paper provides background information for people intending to make a submission to the inquiry, together with a summary of past research comparing public and private hospitals...

This report is the Commission’s latest scorecard on the financial performance of 86 government trading enterprises (GTEs). The report also examines the impact on capital management of inadequate compensation for community service obligations and of the persistent poor performance of some GTEs. The 86 GTEs monitored provide services in key sectors of the economy —...

This twelfth annual report from the Review of Government Service Provision examines the performance of all Australian governments providing education, justice, emergency management, health, community services and housing. These services account for 60 per cent of government recurrent expenditure and over 10 per cent of gross domestic product.

NSW is the only State where local councils have a statutory requirement to prepare annual state of the environment reports. This presentation attempts to outline practitioner’s experiences in SoE reporting, its success or otherwise in delivering on the interpretations of the statutory and non statutory reporting provisions and on the range of outcomes that make...