What's New

6 September 2007
Bills Digest:
Higher Education Endowment Fund Bill 2007 [PDF 164KB]

Research Papers:
‘Naltrexone or methadone’? Debates about drug treatments for heroin dependence in the context of drugs policy [PDF 155KB]

Daylight saving time: summer 2007–08 [PDF 94KB]

5 September 2007
Bills Digest:
Higher Education Endowment Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 60KB]

3 September 2007
Bills Digest:
Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Disability Assistance) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 75KB]

31 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Dental Services) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 92KB]

30 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 81KB]

Social Security and Veterans Affairs Legislation Amendment (One-off Payments and Other 2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 204KB]

28 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2007 [PDF 117KB]

Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Democratic Plebiscites) Bill 2007 [PDF 136KB]

21 August 2007
Research Paper: Australian electoral systems [HTML] [PDF 328KB]

Background Note: Workplace relations reforms: a chronology of business, community and government responses

17 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Communications Legislation Amendment (Information Sharing and Datacasting) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 147KB]

14 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Water Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 230KB]

Migration Amendment (Sponsorship Obligations) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 139KB]

International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2007 [HTML] [PDF56KB]

Corporations (National Guarantee Fund Levies) Amendment Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF68KB]

Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Discretionary Mutual Funds and Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF219KB]

13 August 2007
Bills Digests:
Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 152KB]

Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 127KB]

Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008 [HTML] [PDF 80KB]

Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008 [HTML] [PDF 80KB]

Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 239KB]

Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 137KB]

10 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Aviation Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 84KB]

APEC Public Holiday Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 57KB]

Background Note: Home loan interest rates and repayments

9 August 2007
Background Note:
Commonwealth Indigenous-specific expenditure 1968–2006

Research Paper:
Economic indicators: Whitlam to Howard (August 2007 update) [HTML] [PDF 67KB]

7 August 2007
Bills Digests:
Tax Laws Amendment (2007 Measures No. 4) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 296KB]

Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) Bill (No. 1) 2007 [HTML] [PDF 269KB]

Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) Bill (No. 2) 2007 [HTML] [PDF 269KB]

Northern Territory national emergency response Bills 2007—interim Bills Digest [HTML] [PDF 338KB]

Judges’ Pensions Amendment Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 94KB]

Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending Fee-Help for VET Diploma and VET Advanced Diploma Courses) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 186KB]

Background Note:
Firearms in Australia: a guide to electronic resources

6 August 2007
Bills Digests:
Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No.1) 2007 [HTML] [PDF 105KB]

International Trade Integrity Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 203KB]

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 167KB]

3 August 2007
Bills Digest:
Australian Postal Corporation Amendment (Quarantine Inspection and Other Measures) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 79KB]
Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia's Skills Needs) Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2007 [HTML] [PDF 73KB]

2 August 2007
Research paper:
The statistical evidence for offshore outsourcing and its impact on the Australian labour force [HTML] [PDF 109KB]

Bills Digest:
Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Further 2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 177KB]

Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Protecting Services for Rural and Regional Australia into the Future) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 106KB]

1 August 2007
Research Paper:
Superannuation and taxation 2007-08 [HTML] [PDF 209KB]

Bills Digest:
National Health Amendment (National HPV Vaccination Program Register) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 164KB]

31 July 2007
Bills Digest:
Social Security Amendment (2007 Budget Measures for Students) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 163KB]

26 July 2007
Bills Digest:
Social Security Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 163KB]

24 July 2007
Research Paper:
Media ownership deregulation in the United States and Australia: in the
public interest? [HTML] [PDF 1036KB]

18 July 2007
Bills Digest:
Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill 2007 [HTML] [PDF 123KB]

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