Economics Internet Resources

Easy Guide to the Library's Economics Section Publications by Policy Issue

Economic situation and outlook | Finance Sector | Industry and International Trade | Labour and Workplace Relations | National Competition Policy | Public Finance and Budget Issues | Regional and Rural Australia | Rural Industries | Taxation | Transportation and Communications |

Economic situation and outlook

2004-05

• Global ageing: economic implications for Australia

2002-03

• Economics of War with Iraq

1999-00

• Economic Strategy Behind the 1999-2000 Budget (Budget Features 1999-2000)

1997-98

• Asian Financial Crisis
• Economic and Financial Turmoil in South-East Asia: Origins and Consequences
• Fluctuations in the Value of the Australian Dollar

1996-97

• Assessing Macroeconomic Policy Changes: Simulations Using the Murphy Model of the Australian Economy
• Productivity Growth and Economic Policy in Australia

1995-96

• A Comparison of Recent Australian and New Zealand Economic Performance
• Ecological economics: a conference report

January 1994- June 1995

• Assessments of the economic outlook
• 'Down the drain' or 'Up with the best'?: Ranking Australia's Economic performance
• International comparisons of GDP

1993

• Private sector input to the APEC process

1992

• Managing the international political economy

1990

• The economics of immigration: a postscript

Finance Sector

2005-06

• An adequate superannuation-based retirement income?
• Superannuation ready reckoner: taxation, preservation, self-managed superannuation funds and social security rules for 2005-06
• Super co-contribution—performance to date
• Superannuation, social security and retirement income

2004-05

• Superannuation investment in infrastructure
• Superannuation ready reckoner: taxation and preservation rules for 2004-05 - revised February 2005
• Superannuation ready reckoner: taxation and preservation rules for 2004-05
• The Future Fund

2003-04

• Tightening the Mortgage Belt
• Choice of superannuation fund, are the financial planners ready?

2002-03

• Special Levies: Taxes by Another Name

2001-02

• Bank Account Transaction Taxes: 'FID' and 'BAD'
• Liability insurance premium increases: causes and possible government responses
• Superannuation For people Primarily Over 65 Years of Age
• Superannuation Preservation Rules: A Summary
• Superannuation Ready Reckoner: Taxation and Preservation rules for 2001-02
• Superannuation vesting scales: the revival of an old issue

2000-01

• Trends in Mortgages
• The Growth of Venture Capital / Venture capital in Australia

1999-00

• Do the Primary Financial Statements Comply with Accounting Standards? (Budget Features 1999-2000)
• Federal-State Financial Relations: The Deakin Prophecy
• Superannuation Choice - Do You Want Insurance With That?
• Superannuation Ready Reckoner: Taxation and Preservation rules for 1999-2000
• Superannuation Ready Reckoner: Taxation and Preservation rules for 2000-2001

1997-98

• Asian Financial Crisis
• Australia's Foreign Debt Outlook
• Federalism Up in Smoke? The High Court Decision on State Tobacco Tax

1996-97

• Bank branch rationalisation: should we allow or encourage limited cooperation
• Copyright and Monopoly Profits: Books, Records and Software
• Fees and Charges on 'Budget' Bank Accounts 1997
• International privatisation perspectives: 1995-96
• Tariffs: How Low Should we Go? Modeling the Impact of Tariff Changes
• Wallis Report on the Australian Financial System: Summary and Critique (The)

1995-96

• Foreign Bank Policy in Australia
• More of the Same or a Brave New World?: The National Commission of Audit
• Mortgage Originators: New Financial Stars
• Home mortgage trends

January 1994- June 1995

• A critical analysis of the World Bank
• Australia's current account deficit: past present and future
• Australia's information supertollway
• Derivatives: "Baring" the financial risk
• Financial statements of Commonwealth commercial entities: disclosure of related party transactions of Ministers
• Sources for courses: Commonwealth revenue 1995-96
• The Budget 1994/95, macroeconomic policy and national saving
• The role of monetary policy in Australia
• Thirty years of parliamentary and public service salaries

1993

• General Revenue Grants and the 1993 financial Premiers' Conference
• Inflation fighting and Reserve Bank reform in New Zealand

1990

• Interpretation of the foreign debt debate

Industry and International Trade

2005-06

• Country of origin labelling: Are consumers willing to pay more for Australian products?

2004-05

• Anti-dumping rules and the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement

2002-03

• Building Industry Royal Commission: Background, Findings and Recommendations
• Effects of the US Steel Tariffs of Australian Steel Exports to the US (The)
• Foreign Investment and the Australian United States Free Trade Agreement
• Intellectual property rights and the Australia—US Free Trade Agreement
• Global trade protection and Australian antidumping activity

2001-02

• Is the GATS a Threat to Public Service

2000-01

• Anti-dumping actions against imported A4 copy paper and other paper products

1999-00

• Australian manufacturing: a brief history of industry policy and trade liberalisation
• Industry Policy in Australia
• Performance record of Australian manufacturing (The)

1997-98

• America's Trade Policy: Clinton's defeat on fast track
• Industry Policy: Mortimer, Goldsworthy and The Economist Intelligence Unit
• Outline of the Waterfront Dispute

1996-97

• Australia's Asian Connections: A Stocktake

1995-96

• Inward Direct Foreign Investment in Australia: Policy Controls and Economic Outcomes
• Why Corporate Downsizing Doesn't Work: The 'Confessions' of Stephen Roach and Other Views

January 1994- June 1995

• Australia's boom industry: tourism
• Trade, globalisation and Australian incomes

1993

• An overview of ecologically sustainable development processes in Australia 1990-1992
• International trade and the global environment

1992

• Annual leave loading
• Australia's anti-dumping system: a tool for pursuing protectionist goals?
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: inquiry into sex discrimination and over-award payments 1991-92
• Industrial dispute at APPM Burnie Tasmania; terms of settlement
• Industrial dispute at APPM Burnie, Tasmania
• Migration selection during the recession

1991

• GATT and some international trade issues
• Theories on trading blocs

Labour and Workplace Relations

2005-06

• Workplace Relations Legislation: Bills Passed, Rejected or Lapsed, 38th—40th Parliaments (1996-2004)
• Workplace relations reforms: a chronology of business, community and Government responses

2004-05

• Work and family policies as industrial and employment entitlements

2003-04

• Job Network, the 3rd Contract
• Labour hire: Issues and responses (RP)
• Labour hire: Issues and responses (RN)

2002-03

• Small Business Employment

2001-02

• The Role of Safety Net Awards

1999-00

• Australian Labour Market deregulation: a critical Assessment

1998-99

• Changes to Employment Assistance: More or Less Effective
• Proposals for a Wage Freeze and Tax Credits: Will Subsidising Low Wage Jobs Solve Unemployment?
• Waterfront Dispute: from High Court to Settlement-Summary and Comment (The)

1997-98

• Award Simplification: Progress Report
• Award Simplification: what's out and what's in
• Labour Market Programme Outcomes 1996-97
• International Themes in Public Service Reform

1996-97

• ACTU's Living Wage Claim (The)
• Agency Bargaining in the Australian Public Service: A Stocktake
• A Road to More Employment? Analysing an Employment Allowance for Australia
• Helping the Working Poor: An Earned Income Tax Rebate for Australia
• Labour Market Programs 1995-96: Interpreting the Outcomes
• Labour Market Programs in 1995: Overview and Assessment
• Review of 'Towards A Best Practice Australian Public Service'
• State and Territory Labour Market Programs 1996-97
• Workplace Relations bill: some sticking points (The)

1995-96

• Awards v Contracts: How have the Courts Interpreted the Role of Industrial Awards and Employment Contracts?
• Changing Size of the Commonwealth Public Service (The)
• Public Sector Net Worth: Is It Worth Measuring?
• Redistributing Work: Methods and Possibilities
• Report of the Public Service Act Review Group: Summary and Comments
• The disappearing middle: Australia's increasing wage dispersion

January 1994- June 1995

• Enterprise agreements: myths and realities (a conference report)
• Family incomes: impact of Federal income support measures
• Future directions for unions after Asahi
• Growth and employment strategies: Europe, Japan and the United States
• Reducing unemployment: a conference report
• "Restoring full employment": an overview
• Small business is big business
• Working Nation: a progress report

1993

• Immigration and unemployment: a symposium report
• Labour market deregulation: the New Zealand experience
• The development of federal industrial powers

National Competition Policy

1995-96

• Hilmer, the National Competition Policy; A Layperson's Introduction

January 1994- June 1995

• National competition policy: overview and assessment

Public Finance and Budget Issues

2005-06

• Implications: Budget 2005-2006

2004-05

• The 2004 Budget: some issues arising

2003-04

• Commonwealth General Purpose Financial Assistance to Local Government
• The Commonwealth Government's role in Infrastructure Provision

2002-03

• Commonwealth Budget: Process and Presentation (April 2003)
• Horizontal fiscal equalisation
• Public finance and Vertical Fiscal Imbalance
• Public Private Partnerships: An Introduction
• Review of Commonwealth-State Funding

2001-02

• Australian Loan council (The)
• Charter of Budget honesty: Pre Election Provisions
• Commonwealth Budget: Process and Presentation (The)
• GST Revenue and Budget Balancing Assistance to the States

2000-01

• New Federal-State Financial Relations Framework: An Overview (The)
• Official economic Forecasts: how good are they?

1999-00

• 1999-2000 Budget: its Public Policy Context (The)
• Accrual Budgeting Framework (The)
• Budget Presentation
• Federal and State financial relations: the Deakin prophecy
• Government Surpluses and Debt (Budget Features 1999-2000)
• Budget Features 1999-2000

1997-98

• Budget Review 1997-98
• Budget Review 1998-99
• Coffers of Coffins? Government Policy on Death from Smoking
• Commonwealth Assistance to the States Since 1976

1996-97

• Budget Review 1996-97 Detailed Portfolio Reviews
• Budget Review 1996-97
• Proposed Changes to Financing Aged Care Some Tax and Constitutional Issues

1995-96

• Beer and Cigs Up: A Recent History of Excise in Australia

January 1994- June 1995

• Infrastructure funding in Australia

1993

• An overview of the Commonwealth budgetary process (third edition)
• The Australian Loan Council (2nd edition)

1992

• The Australian Loan Council

1991

• An overview of the Commonwealth budgetary process (second edition)
• Future directions for public sector budget policy: on balance, are surpluses required?

Regional and Rural Australia

2001-02

• A digital divide in rural and regional Australia?

2000-01

• History of the Zone rebate
• Voting patterns and the Gender gap: rural and Regional Dimensions

1999-00

• Regional Development: Some issues for Policy Makers

1995-96

• Dry paddocks, Damp Policies: Drought Assistance Strategies and their Effectiveness
• Mad Cow Disease: Horror or Hysteria?
• Policy Issues in Farm Adjustment
• Farm Sector Linkages to Regional Economies

January 1994- June 1995

• Australian urban and regional development: The policy challenge
• The 1995 US Farm Bill and Australia

1991

• Urban development and renewal

Rural Industries

2001-02

• Mutifunctionality and agriculture: why the fuss?

2000-01

• Plague locust threat to Australian agriculture

1999-00

• Dairy Industry Adjustment Bill 2000: constitutional issues
• Genetic engineering and Agriculture: Australian farming at the crossroads

1995-96

• Dry paddocks, Damp Policies: Drought Assistance Strategies and their Effectiveness
• Mad Cow Disease: Horror or Hysteria?
• Policy Issues in Farm Adjustment

1993

• Commonwealth Government assistance for adjustment in agriculture
• Further processing of agricultural products in Australia: some economic issues

1992

• EC Common Agricultural Policy reforms: impact on GATT and Australian farmers

Taxation

2005-06

• Developments in Commonwealth-state financial relations since 2000-01
• Excise taxation: developments since the mid-1990s
• Net Family Tax Benefit 2004–05 to 2006–07
• Restructuring the personal income tax system: who is proposing what?
• Tax comparisons—Australia and selected countries

2003-04

• Fuel Taxation Proposals

2002-03

• Tax Expenditures: the $30 Billion Twilight Zone of Government Spending

2000-01

• Crude Oil Excise and Royalties
• Superannuation taxation issues and discussion of proposals for reform

1999-00

• Identifying Transactions and Incomes of Persons-Tax Reform or Privacy Issues (Budget Features 1999-2000)
• Proposed reforms to business taxation: a critical assessment of some budgetary and sectorial impacts

1998-99

• ANTS (GST) Bill 1998Any Section 55 Constitutional Issues?
• GST Debate (The)
• Proposed GST: Impact on the Distribution of Income (The)
• Proposals for a Wage Freeze and Tax Credits: Will Subsidising Low Wage Jobs Solve Unemployment?

1997-98

• A GST Debate A Chronology
• Coffers of Coffins? Government Policy on Death from Smoking
• Federal and State Taxation: A Comparison of the Australian, German and Canadian Systems
• Federalism Up in Smoke? The High Court Decision on State Tobacco Tax
• GST debate: a chronology (The)

1996-97

• Conflicts of Interest Avoidance Is There a Role for Blind Trusts?
• Helping the Working Poor: An Earned Income Tax Rebate for Australia
• National Tax reform Summit: a summary of outcomes (The)
• Tax Law Improvement Project: the quite achiever in tax reform
• Total Tax Review: Major Reform Issues
• What is a Direct Expenditure Tax?

January 1994- June 1995

• Income Splitting
• Revenue before rhetoric: a critique of fuel taxation in Australia
• Supercalifragilisticexpiannuation: a plain English guide to Australian superannuation arrangements
• Yours, mine or ours? Is there a case for directed superannuation investment

Transportation and Communications

2006-07

• Government assistance to alternative transport fuels

2005-06

• Liberalisation of international passenger airline services

2004-05

• Energy White Paper: fuel excise grants reform
• Foreign ownership in the telecommunications sector
• Regional telecommunications: an overview
• The AusLink White Paper: an overview
• Second Sydney Airport Chronology

2003-04

• Coastal Shipping: An Overview
• Commonwealth Road Funding Since 1990 (updates 1 March 2004)
• Enhancing Competition in Telecommunications: Accounting Separation of Telstra’s Operations
• Fuel tax changes
• Fuel Taxation Proposals
• Rail Freight Agreement with New South Wales
• Road funding changes
• The 5 Per Cent Tariff on Four-Wheel-Drive Vehicles
• Telstra Sale: Background and Chronology

2002-03

• Turbulent Times: Australian Airline Industry Issues 2003
• Fuel Ethanol—Background and Policy Issues

2001-02

• Aviation Turbine fuel and Aviation Gasoline Excises
• Commonwealth road Funding Update
• Some Issues in Fuel Taxation

2000-01

• Fuel Price Subsidy Schemes
• Petrol and Diesel Excises
• Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT)
• Petrol Price Rises: Causes and Consequences

1999-00

• Commonwealth Road Funding Since 1990
• Cost Recovery in Road and Rail Transport
• Issues in Rail Reform

1997-98

• Australia's Mobile Telephony revolution
• Australian Very Fast Train A Chronology

1996-97

• High speed trains between Canberra and Sydney
• Protection in the Motor Vehicle Industry
• Telstra: Privatisation Issues

January 1994- June 1995

• A spirit of progress? Assessing Australian rail transport policy
• Rail and urban public transport: Commonwealth funding and policy issues

1993

• Commonwealth road funding since 1980

1992

• Australian intercity rail upgrading options

1990

• Telecommunications reform: some basic issues raised by the AUSTEL Report on Public Mobile Telephone Services

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