Designed to help people who are currently dealing with debt problems, or being contacted by debt collectors. Summary This booklet helps you understand: What your legal rights and responsibilities are if you owe a debt Where you can get help to work out your budget, negotiate a repayment plan, apply for hardship and better understand...

This report argues that existing gender inequality is being further entrenched as Australian women are receiving less benefit from tax cuts and shouldering more of the costs of service cuts. Summary Successive governments have made large changes in taxation and spending measures that have disproportionately affected women. Men have benefitted most from tax cuts while...

This paper reports on trends in NSW State finances between 2002-03 and 2014-15 (the latest two years are based on estimates only). For most of the key indicators, the paper also shows trends by Parliament for the current (55th) Parliament and the previous two (54th and 53rd) Parliaments. This paper sets out the key trends...

Identifying a range of socio-economic impacts at the state, institutional, household and individual level, this publication presents an overview of the South Australian Government's response to the Federal Government's budget cuts. It describes the State Government's budget within the context of the Commonwealth's cuts by detailing cuts made at the Federal level. It demonstrates the...

Summary: Total expenditure on health goods and services in Australia was estimated at $147.4 billion in 2012-13 (9.67% of GDP). This was 1.5% higher than in 2011-12 (after adjusting for inflation), the lowest growth the AIHW has recorded since the mid 1980's. The average annual growth over the last decade was 5.1%. Government funding of...