Public utilities
Alternative labels
Essential services
Report
Consumer cost of transmission delays
This report finds that continued transmission delays are driving up consumer electricity bills for households and businesses, threatening energy reliability and risking emissions reduction targets. The costs of inaction to deliver transmission on time must be considered in policymaking.
Article
Watt equity? Australian's deserve a basic energy right
This article discusses the shortcomings of the energy market and how energy equity would be better achieved through non-market approaches, such as the provision of essential energy for free – labelled as a Basic Energy Right in the essay, and colloquially as a Universal Basic Income for Energy.
Report
Cost cutters: a plan to tackle the poverty premium and make markets work
This report analyses the impact of unfair industry practices in the markets for essential goods and services such as energy, water, financial services, broadband, and food; sets out why markets, regulators and the government have failed low-income households; and makes recommendations to tackle the poverty premium and make markets work for low-income families.
Evaluation
One Stop One Story Hub: end of pilot monitoring, evaluation and learning (mel) report
The One Stop One Story (OSOS) Hub is a digital service that enables frontline workers in corporate, government and community organisations to refer their clients to a range of supports through a single access point. This report provides an evaluation of the impact of the OSOS Hub pilot phase.
Discussion paper
Public inquiry into the declaration of the domestic transmission capacity service, fixed line services and domestic mobile terminating access service: discussion paper
This discussion paper begins a combined public inquiry into whether nine wholesale telecommunications services that support the provision of broadband, voice and data transmission services should continue to be regulated.