This paper uses the findings of a very recent major international research collaboration on the impact of federal arrangements on the development of the welfare state to explore the possibilities of progress beyond Europe's present diversity of nation-state welfare standards. These findings -...

This article looks in depth at the ways in which the two largest, British created Federal States, Canada and Australia have, over time, produced quite divergent Federal systems. It explains why regional differences in Canada and notably more striking than in Australia. It spends some time...

Natural resources have been and remain vital to the economic well being in Canada and Australia. The battles over offshore Natural Resources, especially, between Central and Regional Governments in both nations have raised pivotal Federalism issues. The comparative triumph of Central control in...

This article examines an issue of fundamental importance to both business and government: the nature of Australian federalism. Federalism in Australia is a concept under attack with pejorative labels such as 'dysfunctional', 'inefficient', 'coercive' and 'opportunistic' increasingly being used...

Until recently, Australia's State Government-owned railways operated almost entirely within their home states. This has begun to change, in response to the new dynamics unleashed by economic and structural reforms which began in the 1990s. The economic regulatory system that governs third party...