Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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BUDGET 2008-09 Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook
Published 2008-01-01The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 requires the Treasurer to publicly release and table a Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report by the end of January in each year, or within 6 months after the last budget, ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH IN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
Published 2009-04-01This paper does not aim to present policies and strategies that might be adopted by Australia and the US, separately and together, to address the environmental and health problems that confront Pacific Island countries. ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Closing the Gap on Indigenous Disadvantage: Progress towards this important goal
Published 2010-07-01In the early days of his Prime Ministership, Kevin Rudd committed to ‘closing the gap’ on Indigenous disadvantage. Time is ticking in terms of the self imposed timeframe on several of these targets. It’s not clear how ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Scorecard on Government Health Commitments
Published 2009-07-01While the Rudd Government has delivered on quite a few of its pre-election commitments, obesity and dental health are two of the stand-out issues yet to be addressed in any depth. Australia is one of the most overweight ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Mental health provisions in the 2011-12 budget
Published 2011-05-01For health policy analysts who have attempted to follow the way that federal funds are spent on mental health services over the years and the success or otherwise of these investments, this task has become increasingly ...Open AccessReport, Technical