Political, Legal and Government Policy
Australia's political system by Call Number: JQ4020.S8.A978 2014ISBN: 9781922084460Publication Date: 2014This book explains the structure and functions of Australia's government and how voting systems work. A broad range of proposed federal electoral reforms are also explored.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
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Search Australia and policy to find a broad range of policy articles, or try searches like Australia and trade or Australia and tax to find articles about policy and law as it relates to specific sectors or issues.
Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy by Call Number: HV473.M36 2015ISBN: 9781920899967Publication Date: 2015"This book explores marketisation through rich case studies of community aged care, schooling, migrant skills assessment, retirement incomes, health care, income support, banking and social benefit bonds. The cases trace ‘who benefits?’, ‘who suffers?’ and ‘who decides?’ and reveal marketisation to be a complex and disturbing trend in Australian social policy."
- OECD's Australia PageSee how Australia stacks up on various quality of life metrics in the "How’s Life in Australia?" report, as well as information on governance, policy and reform in other reports available on this site.
Only in Australia by Call Number: DU107.O53 2016ISBN: 9780198753254Publication Date: 2016-08-23This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago. Australia's distinctive bent is manifested in a tightly regulated labour market; a heavy reliance on means testing and income taxation; a geographical centralization of political power combined with its dispersal amongst autonomous authorities, and electoral singularities such as compulsory and preferential voting.
- Transparency InternationalSurveys and reports on corruption at the government and industry levels.
- Freedom in the World 2019 MapFrom Freedom House, "an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world."
- The Economist Intelligence Unit 2018 Democracy IndexFrom ABC News, this is a chart of The EIU's Democracy Rankings
- Parliament of Australia and US CongressComparison of Australian Parliament and US Congress.
- The Website for Queensland ParliamentLearn more about the structure, legislation, committees, hearings and other aspects of the Queensland Parliament