The staff working paper 'Stranded Irrigation Assets' (Roper, H., Sayers, C. and Smith, A.) was released on 28 June 2006. Prior to the National Water Initiative (NWI), irrigation authorities imposed restrictions on outward trade of water entitlements partly to protect remaining irrigators against...

The Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper, 'Precaution and the Precautionary Principle: Two Australian Case Studies' (by Annette Weier and Paul Loke), was released in September 2007. The Precautionary Principle was conceived as a response to the inherent difficulties faced by decision...