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Briefing paper

Briefing paper

Key issues for the 57th Parliament


This paper provides Members of the 57th Parliament of New South Wales with an authoritative overview of 45 key issues affecting the state in 2019. It presents the latest evidence on key areas for the NSW community such as health, education, crime and justice, housing, environment, social issues and political issues.
Briefing paper

Quad bike safety: final recommendation to the minister


On 31 August 2017, the Australian Ministers for Consumer Affairs agreed to ‘support all steps necessary to expedite the regulatory impact assessment process and any other safety measures necessary to introduce a consumer safety quad bike rating system and a safety standard’. This ACCC report outlines findings from its investigation into a safety standard for...
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APO Digital Inclusion Collection: a look back into the archive (April 2019)


In his role as APO and CSI's new Digital Inclusion Collection curator, Dr Chris Wilson will highlight some of the older material in the collection, beginning this month with a review of the Internet Society’s Global Internet Report series.
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False promises: how delivering education through public-private partnerships risks fueling inequality instead of achieving quality education for all


A growing body of evidence shows that education public-private partnerships which support private schooling, used in a large number of donor funded education systems, are too often failing the most vulnerable children and risk deepening inequality.
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APO Digital Inclusion Collection brief: April 2019


As part of APO's Digital Inclusion Collection, expert curator Chris K Wilson discusses ACMA’s Communication Report for 2018 as well as the digital inclusion component of the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee’s 2018 report and the government’s response to the digital inclusion recommendations posed in this report.