"Third-party access to rail infrastructure in Western Australia's Pilbara region is a contentious issue due to concerns about how third-party trains might impact on incumbents' operations. A recent State Government proposal involves a haulage regime, rather than access by third-party trains....

"In the modern era, the extent and character of technical change features prominently in discussions of productivity growth and movements in the competitiveness of manufacturing. While technical change is pervasive in modern manufacturing, it occurs unevenly. In this study, technical change is...

Disaggregated data for twenty-seven Australian manufacturing industries are used to examine movements in international price competitiveness relative to each of sixteen major trading partners over the period 1968 to 1989. The changes in price competitiveness are decomposed into elements of...