The staff working paper 'Stranded Irrigation Assets' (Roper, H., Sayers, C. and Smith, A.) was released on 28 June 2006. Prior to the National Water Initiative (NWI), irrigation authorities imposed restrictions on outward trade of water entitlements partly to protect remaining irrigators against...

Historically, governments have played the predominant role in owning and operating infrastructure facilities such as schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, railways, ports, telecommunications networks, and water and electricity supply facilities. However, fiscal policy constraints, growing...

This paper examines, for a range of utilities in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States, prices, the cost factors influencing prices and quality of service. The utilities were chosen to minimize differences in operating characteristics

This paper looks at the extent of differences in the accessibility, quality and price of telecommunications services between remote, rural and urban areas in Australia and other comparable countries. It finds that users experience some disadvantages compared with urban users, but generally no...

Reports on the financial performance of 63 Commonwealth, State and Territory government trading enterprises. In 1999-00, these businesses had a combined revenue of $51.1 billion and controlled assets valued at more than $133 billion. The report provides valuable time series data on the financial...