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Latest Background Notes

Background Notes (BNs) are updated as necessary. Recent BNs are made available for approximately 12 months and are then located at http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/archive.htm

Title
Date
Same-sex marriage [PDF 804KB] 10.02.2012
Australia's implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention [HTML] [PDF 685KB] 7.02.2012
Chronology of Fair Work: background, events and related legislation [HTML] [PDF 695KB] 25.01.2012
Boat arrivals in Australia since 1976 [HTML] [PDF 760KB] 24.01.2012
Immigration detention in Australia [HTML] [PDF 929KB] 23.01.2012
The gods must be crazy: chronology of and issues in the Qantas industrial dispute 2011 [HTML] [PDF 442KB] 23.01.2012
The national broadband network and the federal government budget statements [HTML] [PDF 1.63MB] 13.01.2012
The administration of Commonwealth Government advertising [HTML] [PDF 1.18MB] 11.01.2012
Fossil fuel taxes [HTML] [PDF 441KB] 10.01.2012
The use of exchange rates in international income comparisons [HTML] [PDF 413KB] 12.12.2011
Australian Government spending on irregular maritime arrivals and counter-people smuggling activity [HTML] [PDF 661KB] 6.12.2011
Refugee resettlement to Australia: what are the facts? [HTML] [PDF 674KB] 6.12.2011
The origins of Australia’s uranium export policy [HTML] [PDF 645KB] 2.12.2011
The Minerals Resource Rent Tax—selected concepts and issues [HTML] [PDF 848KB] 24.11.2011
Domestic violence in Australia—an overview of the issues [HTML] [PDF 930KB] 23 .11.2011
Australia's involvement in Afghanistan: revised facts and figures [HTML] [PDF 925KB] 22.11.2011
Electronic gaming machines: what lessons from Norway? [HTML] [PDF 398KB] 21.11.2011
Toward national workplace safety and workers’ compensation systems: a chronology [HTML] [PDF 175KB] 11.11.2011
Anzac Day 2011 [HTML] [PDF 1.2 MB] 4.11.2011
The hung Commonwealth Parliament: the first year [HTML] [PDF 1.68MB] 7.10.2011
The annual allowance for senators and members [HTML] [PDF 739KB] 6.10.2011
Parliamentary allowances, salaries of office and entitlements [HTML] [PDF 860KB] 5.10.2011
Should Parliament ultimately decide whether asylum seekers may be sent to a foreign country? [HTML] [PDF 631KB] 19.08.2011
Population change in electoral divisions, 2008 to 2009 [HTML] [PDF 1.40MB] 19.08.2011
Suicide in Australia [HTML] [PDF 945KB] 29.07.2011
The development of Australia’s coal seam gas resources [HTML] [PDF 524KB] 28.07.2011

Asylum seekers and refugees: what are the facts? [HTML] [PDF 302KB]

22.07.2011
Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel management in Australia [HTML] [PDF 1.35MB] 21.07.2011
The Democratic Labor Party: an overview [HTML] [PDF 506KB] 18.07.2011
Australian aid to Afghanistan [HTML] [PDF 616KB] 18.07.2011
2011 NSW Election [HTML] [PDF 1.3MB] 23.06.2011
Australia-Korea Year of Friendship 2011 [HTML] [PDF 497KB] 20.06.2011
Australian elections timetable [HTML] [PDF 498KB] 9.06.2011
How do federal and state electorates overlap? [HTML] [PDF 1.09MB] 2.06.2011

Codes of conduct in Australian and selected overseas parliaments [HTML] [PDF 1.2MB]

2.06.2011
Overview of Indigenous Affairs: Part 2: 1992 to 2010 [HTML] [PDF 703KB] 10.05.2011
Overview of Indigenous Affairs: Part 1: 1901 to 1991 [HTML] [PDF 110KB] 10.05.2011
Postcodes in electoral divisions (2009 boundaries) [HTML] [PDF 2.52MB] 6.05.2011
The ABC: an overview [HTML] [PDF 1.26MB] 20.04.2011
Meeting employee entitlements in the event of employer insolvency [HTML] [PDF 699KB] 4.04.2011
Foreign investment in Australia: recent developments [HTML] [PDF 658KB] 1.04.2011
Social security payments for the aged, people with disabilities and carers 1901 to 2010 [HTML] [PDF 524KB] 21.02.2011
Aviation safety regulation timeline 1982–2011 [HTML] [PDF 1012KB] 7.02.2011
Local Government Areas and Statistical Local Areas in electoral divisions [HTML] [PDF 423KB] 3.02.2011
Australian Government funding for schools explained [HTML] [PDF 519KB] 31.01.2011
Seeking Asylum: Australia’s humanitarian program [HTML] [PDF 723KB] 21.01.2011
Performance standards to reduce energy emissions [HTML] [PDF 277KB] 14.01.2011
Hung parliaments and minority governments [HTML] [PDF 613KB] 23.12.2010
NATO’s new Strategic Concept and issues for Australia [HTML] [PDF 256KB] 17.12.2010
Of the plan: Commonwealth city planning systems [HTML] [PDF 376KB] 16.12.2010
How many are employed in the Commonwealth public sector? [HTML] [PDF 500KB] 26.11.2010
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: still trading after all these years [HTML] [PDF 682KB] 12.11.2010
The sinking of the Montevideo Maru [HTML] [PDF 283KB] 8.11.2010
Migration to Australia since federation: a guide to the statistics [HTML] [PDF 1139KB] 29.10.2010
Australia's Migration Program [HTML] [PDF 384KB] 29.10.2010
Developments in Australian refugee law and policy 2007–10: Labor’s first term in office [HTML] [PDF 785KB] 18.10.2010
Chronology of changes in the Australian Public Service 1975–2010 [HTML] [PDF 469KB] 11.10.2010
Selected Australian political records (as at October 2010) [HTML] [PDF 212KB] 8.10.2010
Superannuation benefits for senators and members [HTML] [PDF 350KB] 7.10.2010
The Australian Resources Sector—its contribution to the nation, and a brief review of issues and impacts [HTML] [PDF 285KB] 23.09.2010
Commonwealth Indigenous-specific expenditure 1968–2010 [HTML] [PDF 440KB] 16.09.2010
Identified National Broadband Network (NBN) funding sources and allocations [HTML] [PDF 110KB] 16 .08.2010
Climate change - online only [HTML]