Research // Mick Peel

The Australia Institute Tasmania The Australia Institute South Australia
Centre for Future Work Carmichael Centre Nordic Policy Centre Centre for Responsible Technology Centre for Sex & Gender Equality
ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA

July 2014

Governance & Government Agencies

Review of the Boston Consulting Group’s report to the Minister for Communications Briefing for the CWU on Australia Post’s operations

by Mick Peel

Australia post made a profit before tax of $402.8 million in 2012-13. In the last 4 years its combined profits were more than $1.25 billion. Australia Post is experiencing a trend decline in the volume of letters it delivers and a trend increase in the volume of small parcels it delivers. As described above, its

June 2014

Fossil Fuel Mining, Governance & Government Agencies, Minerals Mining

Mining the age of entitlement

State government assistance to the mining and fossil fuel sector
by Mick Peel, Rod Campbell and Richard Denniss

State governments are more usually associated with the provision of health, education and law enforcement than industry assistance. So it might surprise taxpayers to learn that state government assistance for the mineral and fossil fuel industries consumes significant amounts of their money. Each state provides millions of dollars’ worth of assistance to mining industries every

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