With the release of the March quarter 2005 population estimates by the Australian Statistician on Thursday 22 September 2005, the Australian Electoral Commissioner now has the information needed to determine the representation entitlements for the states and territories. Gerard Newman and Stephen Barber look at the figures and their implications.

Except for a short period in 2004, the value of the Australian dollar has been rising steadily against the United States dollar for several years. In this research brief - a revision of Research Note 9 of 2000-01 - Greg Baker and Stephen Barber show details of that rise and provide relevant statistical background.

Currently, there is much debate regarding income tax rates and possible tax cuts. Part of this debate concerns higher income earners and whether they should receive tax cuts--either through lowering their marginal tax rate and/or increasing the income threshold at which their marginal tax rate takes effect. In this research note Stephen Barber provides statistics...

Stephen Barber and Andrew Kopras take recently published postcode taxation statistics and aggregate them to an electorate basis. Summary information on such items as taxpayers, taxable income, tax paid and net tax ratio are shown for each electorate in Australia. Six tables ranking the electorates by various taxation categories are provided as well as two...