| Description |
1 online resource (125 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance Ser |
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Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Establishing national foundations -- A national system of industrial relations -- Pensions and benefits -- earned or entitled? -- The electoral system: the other invisible hand -- Making a federation work -- the Grants Commission -- 3 Post-WWII grand ideas -- Co-innovation in agriculture -- the RDCS -- Opening for business -- dismantling import restrictions -- Medicines for all -- the PBS -- 4 The baby-boomer reforms |
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Independent policy advice -- the Productivity Commission -- Recognising poverty -- the poverty line -- Going metric -- Universal health insurance -- Medibank -- Collecting financial support for children -- Income-contingent student loans -- HECS -- Comprehensive retirement income -- compulsory superannuation -- Privatisating state enterprises -- Managing a river basin -- best practice or work-in-progress? -- 5 The new Millennium -- A dispersed labour exchange -- the job network -- A national safety net for people with disabilities -- the NDIS -- Australia's national electricity market -- the NEM |
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A comprehensive business panel dataset -- BLADE -- Evidence to understand household behaviours -- HILDA -- 6 Conclusion -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scales, Bill
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| ISBN |
9781000655780 |
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1000655784 |
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