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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Cricket, professionalism, and economics -- Chapter 3: Origins of cricket in Australia -- Chapter 4: Cricket clubs and grounds in Australia -- Chapter 5: State associations and overseas tours of Australian cricket teams -- Chapter 6: Board control of Australian cricket -- Chapter 7: Cricket in Australia in the Inter-war years -- Chapter 8: Cricket in Australia in the post-war world -- Chapter 9: The Packer revolution and Australian cricket -- Chapter 10: Australian cricket after Packer -- Chapter 11: Conclusion.

Themes and methods -- Introduction -- The public policy process in Australia -- Economic policy and efficiency -- Economic policy -- Industry policy -- Agricultural policy -- Government support for research and development -- Trade practices -- The national competition policy -- Government business enterprises and privatisation -- Energy policy -- Utility regulation in Australia -- Infrastructure -- Labour markets -- Training and education markets -- Social policies, environment and taxation -- Social policy and the welfare state in Australia -- Healthcare -- Revenue raising : tax policy -- Environmental policy -- Conclusion -- Conclusion

Over the past 60 years the International Wool Secretariat has conducted scientific research into aspects of the wool industry, and promotional campaigns designed to boost demand for wool. The Secretariat dates its origins back to the 1930s, a time when a number of cooperative agricultural marketing programs were first initiated. In this paper the origins of the Secretariat are investigated in order to determine the precise reasons why it was founded and why it took the form that it did.

By using the concept of the constant employment budget balance and changes in real public debt it is possible to determine the size of the public sector's real structural budget imbalances during the interwar period. In doing so the budget deficit of the public sector during the depression is shown to have been much larger than indicated by previous estimates of the nominal budget imbalance, and indicates that the fiscal stance of the government was expansionary during the worst year of the Great Depression rather than contractionary.

Abstract By using the concept of the constant employment budget balance and changes in real public debt it is possible to determine the size of Australian Government's real structural budget imbalances during the postwar era. In doing so it is possible to partially explain the short run fluctuations in economic activity and comment on the ability of the Federal Government to influence the level of economic activity.

Part I: Setting the framework -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Australian economic development and network utilities -- Part II: The construction of the new infrastructure: the 19th century -- Chapter 3: Infrastructure development: industrialisation, institutions, private interests, and public capital investment -- Chapter 4: The colonial post office -- Chapter 5: Local supply networks: water and gas -- Chapter 6: Railways: emergence and development -- Part III: A new nation and its networks: 1901 to 1945 -- Chapter 7: Infrastructure provision for a new nation -- Chapter 8: The development of telecommunications -- Chapter 9: Urban amenities: electricity, gas, and tramways -- Chapter 10: The railways: growth and decline -- Part IV: The post-war era: 1945 to 1988 -- Chapter 11: The post-war world -- Chapter 12: Telecommunications: extending the network -- Chapter 13: Urban growth and change -- Chapter 14: Transport: a new way forward -- Part V: Conclusion -- Chapter 15: Economic policy, service delivery, and productivity.

'Utilities Reform in 21st Century Australia' traces the development and consequences of the economic reform measures undertaken in the utilities sector in Australia (communications, energy, water/wastewater services, and transport) in the last years of the 20th century, and early decades of the 21st century. In doing so, it looks at the process of reform across industries, and across the state and federal jurisdictions, to identify what motivations the various governments had for pursing reform, how change varied across jurisdictions, and what issues arose in the process.