Background Notes

Latest Background Notes

Background Notes are only available online and are designed to be updated as necessary. Recent BNs are made available for approximately 6 months and are then located at http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/archive.htm

Title	Date
Parliamentary sitting days and hours 2008 [PDF 269KB]	19.11.2009
Boat arrivals in Australia since 1976 [PDF 269KB]	18.11.2009
Australia's foreign investment relationship with partner countries [PDF 315KB]	17.11.2009
Toward national workplace safety and workers’ compensation systems: a chronology [PDF 380KB]	13.11.2009
‘Forgotten Australians’ and ‘Lost Innocents’: child migrants and children in institutional care in Australia [PDF 167KB]	11.11.2009
Double dissolutions: triggers, elections and proposals for reform [PDF 474KB]	22.10.2009
Burma/Myanmar: internal issues and regional and international responses [PDF 380KB]	16.10.2009
Population change in Commonwealth electoral divisions, 2007 to 2008	16.10.2009
The Kyoto Protocol accounting rules [PDF 241KB]	14.10.2009
Parliamentary allowances, benefits and salaries of office [PDF 191KB]	1.10.2009
Chronology of Fair Work: background, events and related legislation [PDF 138KB]	24.09.2009
Emissions trading—has it worked? [PDF 223KB]	17.09.2009
Economic effects of payroll tax [PDF 87KB]	14.09.2009
Australian citizenship: a chronology of major developments in policy and law [PDF 257KB]	11.09.2009
The basics of biochar [PDF 98KB]	10.09.2009
Chronology of superannuation and retirement income in Australia [PDF 247KB]	10.09.2009
Climate change	1.09.2009
What is Medicare Select? [PDF 42KB]	26.08.2009
The (green) car of the future [PDF 376KB]	25.08.2009
A timeline of the 2009 political crisis in Fiji and key regional reactions [PDF 377KB]	20.08.2009
Refugees and asylum seekers: a guide to key electronic resources [PDF 251KB]	17.08.2009
Private health insurance premium increases—an overview [PDF 41KB]	13.08.2009
Climate change discussions and negotiations: a calendar [PDF 390KB]	17.07.2009
Medical practitioners: education and training in Australia [PDF 640KB]	15.07.2009
Philanthropy by Commonwealth electoral division, 2006–07 [PDF 173KB]	14.07.2009
Retrospective awards to service personnel for gallantry and bravery [PDF 106KB]	6.07.2009