Extended producer responsibility, or EPR, is an environmental policy approach in which a producer's responsibility, physical and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product's life cycle. In the paper Stewart Smith canvasses the application of EPR, including container deposit legislation, in efforts to reduce the volume of waste disposal...

In 2003-2004, the Small Arms Survey completed a series of research projects across 20 nations of the southwest Pacific.1 One of these, a survey of the proliferation of small arms and firearm-related violence in the strife-torn Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Alpers, 2005), relies on a range of background information, field interviews from 19...

This information paper makes a case for the adoption of taxable income as an indicator of economic activity in Australia's regions. It presents statistical analyses and case studies to demonstrate the superiority of taxable income over either population or employment as an indicator of regional economic activity.

The 2005 British election was held on 5 May. Scott Bennett reviews the campaign, the results and the fall-out, and looks at the controversy over Britain's first-past-the-post voting system.

This paper outlines the need for change across all areas in remote Aboriginal communities: health, housing, education, employment and training, governance, Land Councils, business and funding. It sets out the policy reforms needed to reduce deprivation in remote Aboriginal communities.