Supporting research and data
Commission staff undertake supporting research and analysis, data compilation and model development in support of our inquiry and study activity.
Australian gas industry and markets study
09 / 03 / 1995
The report resulted from an Industry Commission study of the Australian gas industry to assist the Trade Practices Commission in its review of an authorisation granted to the Australian Gas Light Company in 1986 covering gas marketing arrangements between that company and the South Australian Cooper Basin gas producers.
The growth and revenue implications of Hilmer and related reforms
07 / 03 / 1995
In this report, the Industry Commission investigated the effect of economic growth and revenue of "Hilmer and related reforms" including where these reforms had already commenced.
The use of cost litigation rules to improve the efficiency of the legal system
01 / 03 / 1995
This submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission review of the litigation cost rules comments on whether changes should be made to how costs are awarded in proceedings before federal courts and tribunals.
Australian manufacturing industry and international trade data 1968-69 to 1992-93
01 / 03 / 1995
Australian manufacturing industry and international trade data 1968-69 to 1992-93
International performance indicators - Telecommunications 1995
01 / 03 / 1995
International performance indicators - Telecommunications 1995
Competition and retail banking
01 / 03 / 1995
This submission to the Prices Surveillance Authority's Public Inquiry into Fees and Charges Imposed on Retail Transaction Accounts by Banks and Other Financial Institutions examines whether fees and charges are set in a competitive environment, looks at their incidence on different groups within society and assesses the case for government intervention.
Assistance to agricultural and manufacturing industries
01 / 03 / 1995
Assistance to agricultural and manufacturing industries
Australia's visa system for visitors
01 / 02 / 1995
This submission examines the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the visitor visa system, and possible alternatives to the visitor visa system, including the options of visa free travel or multiple entry visas.
Pre-merger notification and the Trade Practices Act 1974
01 / 02 / 1995
This submission assesses the Trade Practices Commission’s need for more, and more timely, information from firms intending to merge.
Competitive safeguards in telecommunications
01 / 02 / 1995
This submission comments primarily on the competition policy issues raised in Chapter Six an of issues paper, 'Beyond the Duopoly - Australian Telecommunications Policy and Regulation', released for comment in September 1994 by the Minister for Communications and the Arts.
The analysis and regulation of safety risk
01 / 02 / 1995
The analysis and regulation of safety risk
Corporations Law Simplification Taskforce
01 / 02 / 1995
Four submissions which were made to the Corporations Law, Simplifications Task Force.
Broadband cable access regime
24 / / 1995
This submission comments on access to facilities in circumstances where there are questions as to whether the facilities are "essential" and whether natural monopolies exist.
National Competition Policy: Draft legislative package
01 / 12 / 1994
This submission comments on two aspects of the National Competition Policy Draft Legislative Package - the policy goals of the proposed new institutions, and the process whereby access declarations would be made and administered.
Compliance with the road transport law
01 / 12 / 1994
This submission comments on selected propositions from the National Road Transport Commission NRTC paper, 'Compliance with the Road Transport Law: Principles, Objectives and Strategies', released June 1994. In particular, the submission focuses on the first proposition, that the objective of compliance strategies should be to maximise compliance with standards as cost-effectively and fairly as possible. It also provides brief comments on some related issues.
Industry Commission Annual Report 1993-94
31 / 10 / 1994
Industry Commission Annual Report 1993-94
Guidelines on accounting policy for valuation of assets of Government Trading Enterprises: Using current valuation methods
01 / 10 / 1994
The performance monitoring report, Guidelines on Accounting Policy for Valuation of Assets of Government Trading Enterprises, provides the framework to enable a consistent approach to the valuation of non-current physical assets of GTEs involved in national performance monitoring exercises.
Country of origin labelling of food
01 / 10 / 1994
This submission comments on the National Food Authority's Discussion Paper. It examines the rationale for country of origin labelling in general, and assesses the proposal against the Government's regulation review framework.
What future for price surveillance?
01 / 09 / 1994
This submission to the Prices Surveillance Authority's review builds on its views on competition policy in its discussion paper Pro-competitive Regulation, with additional research and the findings of recent Industry Commission inquiries that have dealt with prices surveillance.
Developments in regulation and its review 1993-94
01 / 09 / 1994
Developments in regulation and its review 1993-94