The past three weeks have seen considerable discussion of Australia’s wholesale electricity market, driven largely by severe price spikes in South Australia. Hugh Saddler, writing last week on The Conversation, and the Climate Council, in a report...

The CLARA private consortium claims a high speed rail network between Sydney and Melbourne could be paid for at no cost to the government through a technique known as value capture. What is still not clear is whether there will be enough value created by the project to capture in order to pay for the project.

Value capture is well established...

Names and addresses collected as part of the 2016 Census, to be conducted on August 9, will be retained to enable the census to be linked to other national data. Names and addresses had previously been retained for 18 months, but the information is...