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...

Markets are fundamental to the success of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It is through diverse and robust disability markets that participants can exercise choice and control, thereby delivering on the goals of the scheme. Following the introduction of the NDIS we have seen...

The National Performance Benchmarking Project undertaken by Not-for-profits UWA personnel produced three annual sustainability reports analyzing service providers working in the Australian Disability Services Sector, each published in 2016, 2017 and 2019. This work also contributed to the...

This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is...