Water Rewards Pilot Project

Background to Water Rewards
In Australia, urban water is supplied to consumers by monopoly water authorities. To increase the use of available water we have to invest in ways to make better use of existing mains water through consumer behavioural changes and we have to fund costly new supplies from sources such as desalination, storm [...]

A cost effective approach to improve …

A cost effective approach to improve identity security
The Federal Government has numerous programs to improve the handling of citizen’s identities. Major initiatives include the Access Card and the new AML/CTF anti-money laundering legislation. The majority of these programs are based around organisational control and allowing organisations to better know their clients. Such approaches [...]

Affordable Housing

Letter to the Editor published 12th March 2007
Crispin Hall in Saturday March 10th CT argues that government cannot reduce the cost of housing because it cannot afford to alienate the electorate through engineering a reduction in house prices. A solution to this dilemma is a variation on the shared equity proposals of Malcolm Turnbull. We [...]