Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. Indigenous Australians inhabited the continent for about 65,000 years prior to the first arrival of Dutch explorers in the early 17th century, who …

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Lowy Institute for International Policy · 9 July 2024 English

Everyone is hoping that the productivity fairy sprinkles pixie-dust on our economic problems inflation, slow growth and income inequality. Remember Paul Krugmans maxim:Productivity isnt everything, but in the long run …

Stephen Grenville Stephen Grenville Areas of expertise: Regional economic integration; Australia's economic relations with


Australian Human Rights Commission · 24 April 2024 English

I make the following recommendations: Recommendation 1 The Commission recommends that the Department progress each of the elements of the Alternatives to Held Detention program, including: • the development of …

Mr KO v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2024] AusHRC 162 April 2024 ABN 47 996 Human Rights Commission Mr KO v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2024] AusHRC 162 162 April 2024 Mr KO v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2024] AusHRC 162 Report Human Rights Commission Mr KO v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Home Affairs) [2024] AusHRC 162 of Home Affairs (Department). Mr KO arrived in Australia by boat at Christmas Island, and was transferred


GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …

agricultural productivity can collapse. In Western Australia the lost agricultural productivity from salinity $519 million per year (Government of Western Australia, 2022). The negative impacts of environmental


Australian Rail Track Corporation · 23 April 2024 English

ARTC Interstate Annual Possessions Plan 2024 / 2025 23/04/2024 Version 3 QUARTER 1 Jul-24 Aug-24 Sep-24 Oct-24 NSW School Holidays NSW School Holidays VIC School Holidays Victoria School Holidays Week …

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CASP: Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention · 23 April 2024 English

9-8-8 requires co-operation and partnership between many stakeholders and rightsholders across all Provinces and Territories in Canada, and the existing crisis and distress sector, as well as meaningful involvement of …

years of public health experience in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Kenya, and Tanzania. Megan provides


Australian Energy Market Operator · 23 April 2024 English

The high-price events in January and February that contributed to the overall rise in the cap return component of the quarterly average are discussed in Section 1.2.2 • In this …

Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania). • The Wholesale Electricity Market gas supply arrangements operating in Western Australia. • The gas markets operating in Queensland, New New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Disclaimer This document or the information in it may be the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to wholesale spot prices averaging $67/MWh, and South Australia $55/MWh. Victoria recorded the lowest quarterly


Australian Energy Market Operator · 23 April 2024 English

The high-price events in January and February that contributed to the overall rise in the cap return component of the quarterly average are discussed in Section 1.2.2 • In this …

Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania). • The Wholesale Electricity Market gas supply arrangements operating in Western Australia. • The gas markets operating in Queensland, New New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Disclaimer This document or the information in it may be the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to wholesale spot prices averaging $67/MWh, and South Australia $55/MWh. Victoria recorded the lowest quarterly


OHE: Office of Health Economics · 22 April 2024 English

pneumococcal disease (PD), herpes zoster (HZ), and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in ten countries (Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and the United States of

respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in ten countries (Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland Schedule data collected in Q3-Q4 2023. Australia Brazil France Germany Italy Japan Poland This includes seven high-income countries (Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, and the (burden[Title/Abstract]) OR (impact[Title/Abstract])) AND ((australia) OR (brazil) OR (france) OR (germany) OR (italy) disease in the United States and influenza in Australia, respectively). No evidence was identified relating


Australian Energy Market Operator · 22 April 2024

RIT-T Project Assessment Draft Report

The AEMC's Final Determination, published on 1 February 2024, included introducing a 'changes in Australia’s greenhouse gas


SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute · 22 April 2024 English

Total global military expenditure reached $2443 billion in 2023, an increase of 6.8 per cent in real terms from 2022. This was the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009. The 10 …

0 12 12 Italy 35.5 –5.9 31 1.6 1.3 1.5 13 13 Australia 32.3 –1.5 34 1.9 1.8 1.3 14 19 Poland 31.6 75 (12%) Others (19%) Israel (1.1%) Poland (1.3%) Australia (1.3%) Italy (1.5%) South Korea (2.0%) Japan (2


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