Australia and the UK are both prominent economies in the international arena and share a strong trade and investment relationship. Interestingly, the UK while being a significant destination for Australian exports is an even more significant destination for Australian direct investment, a case...

Extract: This paper explores strategies for improving the value for money to Government in the financing component of public private partnership (PPP) procurement for social infrastructure projects, drawing on the experience of methods trialled over the past five years in the United Kingdom and...

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

This paper is concerned with the international mobility of New Zealanders who migrate to Australia. One in ten New Zealand citizens lives in Australia and their settlement and subsequent mobility is important from demographic, socio-economic and policy perspectives in both countries. Using a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate electronic health record (EHR) initiatives at the national/external level. Governments are investing large amounts of money in national EHR systems. These systems are socially and politically complex and a variety of stakeholders (e.g. at the...

Herein we seek to extend understanding of the 'accounting-cycle' hypothesis by comparing the Australian, and United Kingdom (UK) experiences with inflation accounting during 1973-85. The existence of 'cycles' in accounting standard-setting was first suggested in respect of inflation-accounting...

This paper studies the measures that enhance Value for Money (VFM) in PPP projects from the findings achieved in a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire survey was conducted in Hong Kong (also known as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) and Australia, and is compared to the results...

Purpose – This paper aims to compare and contrast the career experiences and development needs of British and Australian quality managers. Design/methodology/approach – The results of a postal survey of the careers of British quality managers are compared with Australian quality managers...