The prohibition against Australians using illicit drugs is ineffective, but still imposes a high burden on government revenues and indirectly contributes (because of its ineffectiveness) to additional costs paid by Australian households. These are the claims of those who argue for a change in...

This paper is an attempt to determine the extent to which Australian tertiary sector organisations stand to gain from improved weather forecasts. An upper limit to this amount must be the sum of the maximum savings afforded by weather forecasts sufficiently accurate (“almost†perfect)...