Australia’s strategy for managing national security is set out in a number of complex and interrelated policy documents that span multiple agencies. This paper summarises key parts of the federal critical infrastructure protection policy trajectory in the period 1978 – 2010. The research was designed to answer the following questions: 1. How has Australia’s federal...

By acknowledging that the hallmark of future climate change effects is uncertainty, rather than readily identifiable and deterministic outcomes, it is possible to formulate coherent policy approaches. Economists were able to formulate and recommend policy approaches for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (mitigation) by drawing on an existing body of economic theory related to externalities...

This bulletin reveals areas of the country which require major regeneration of residential, energy, water and communications infrastructure, better known as 'grey fields'.

This consultation paper sets out the nature of each of the tasks assigned to the Commission for the Government's Clean Energy Future Package. The Australian Parliament recently passed the Government’s Clean Energy and related legislation (referred to as the Clean Energy Future Package). The Clean Energy Future Package creates a carbon pricing mechanism (to commence...

On 6 January 2012, the ABC reported that "the New South Wales Government is currently reviewing the royalty holiday for coal seam gas developments." It was further reported that the NSW Government has not released a timeframe for when a decision would be made. As of 17 January 2012, all onshore petroleum developments in NSW...