The Business/Higher Education Roundtable commissioned the Allen Consulting Group to conduct a scoping study that reviews the effectiveness of current interventions designed to increase the number of people with higher education qualifications in the agricultural workforce. Although employment levels in on-farm agriculture have not been growing, there is a shortage of skilled labour across the...

The report considers the socio-economic implications of possible coal seam gas operations at three different monetary levels: the regional economy/community of northwest NSW; the state economy; and the broader national economy.

This report was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy (ACRE) to identify the financial and technical capability of the Australian geothermal energy sector and to identify potential policy mechanisms to accelerate its development.

This report models the impact of the Clean Energy Future legislation on property businesses, in particular operational and building costs.

One of four reports commissioned by the Review of Funding for Schooling, this focuses on the feasibility of a schooling resource standard (SRS). The concept of a SRS has particular relevance as, across many areas of human service delivery, governments have sought to distinguish their role as 'purchasers' of services, from their role as a...