The lack of uniformity in defamation law between the states and territories has been the subject of much criticism for over twenty five years. The Commonwealth Attorney-General has put forward a broad blueprint for a nationally consistent law. Unless the states and territories agree to bring their defamation laws into line with the paper, the...

Much of the debate over the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement centres on whether and how it will affect the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. In this Research Note Kate Burton examines the parts of AUSFTA that have caused the most concern and assesses their likely impact on the PBS.

This Research Note is one of a series examining the results of polls that test the importance of issues to voters and the parties that voters prefer to handle those issues. Sarah Miskin and Greg Baker show the latest results as compared to those of the previous poll and changes in the importance of selected...

This Research Note is one of a series comparing the opinion polls results from June 2001 onwards of the major polling organisations: Newspoll, Roy Morgan Research and ACNielsen. Sarah Miskin and Greg Baker show the results of the polls for the primary vote, a comparison of the Coalition and Labor results of the two major...

Andrew Kopras provides an analysis of socio-demographic data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing by Commonwealth electoral division, reflecting changes to electoral boundaries brought about by redistributions. The next federal election, due on or before 16 April 2005, will be contested on these boundaries.