This white paper utilises the observations and comments of a wide range of stakeholders and research about the implementation of the NDIS and its impact on the Australian Disability Services System. It is also informed by international experience and academic literature focused on economic...

Grant Thornton Australia and the University of Western Australia are jointly investing in a three-year research program designed to build the capacity of Not-for-profits in the area of outcomes specification, measurement and reporting, and to provide practical and effective tools to assist them...

In 1959, an edited volume entitled The State and Economic Growth was published. It consisted of papers presented at a 1956 conference related to the same topic. Of interest here was the inclusion of N. G. Butlin's paper entitled “Colonial Socialism in Australia”. The existence of colonial...

While it is difficult to identify a point in time that co-operation was established in England, there is no doubt that the Victorian era constituted the greatest period of development, both in terms of the various philosophies of co-operation and its implementation. The development of the...

We discuss the contribution of autocratic tendencies in democratically elected political leaders to the economic growth of developed economies. To this end, we exploit the unique election of Sir Charles Court as state premier of Western Australia in 1975 to estimate the contribution of...

The Synthetic Control Method has become a widely used tool in estimating the causal impact of policies, shocks and interventions of interest on economic and social outcomes. The technique has become particularly popular in estimating the effect of these shocks on a single treated unit. As a...