Australian telecommunications pricing has developed in an environment that is uncompetitive, subject to pressures to cross-subsidize, and insufficiently cognizant of relevant costs and demands. STD and local call charges are too high and access charges too low. Compared with a structure that...

The diesel fuel rebate scheme which returns most of the excise on diesel fuel used off-road by agricultural and mineral producers has been debated. Removal could cause three inefficiencies (input choice distortion, deadweight losses on reduced exports, and flow-on inefficiencies in domestic...