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ISSN 1834-9854 Executive summary • At the end of 2011 there were over 16 million refugees and asylum seekers worldwide. By far the majority of these are hosted in the developing world, close to the refugee-producing hotspots. However significant numbers do make their way to developed countries to apply for

ISSN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Electoral reform issues............................................................................................................................. 2 Background to the election ...................................................................................................................... 3 The Rudd Labor Government 2007-10 .............................................................................................. 4 The Global Financial Crisis ............................................................................................................. 5 Climate change .............................................................................................................................. 6 Leadership of the Opposition ............................................................................................................. 6 Clouds

ISSN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Executive summary During the period 1901 to 2010, there have been 43 general elections for the House of Representatives and 41 Senate elections. This paper contains a brief commentary on each election, and statistical summary information of each election along with

ISSN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Executive summary .................................................................................................................................. 1 Key policy tools for containing health expenditure ............................................................................ 1 Deciding which health care interventions will be publicly funded ................................................ 1 Changing the way health care providers are paid ......................................................................... 2 Imposing more costs on individuals .............................................................................................. 2

ISSN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Executive summary • This paper provides a comprehensive set of statistical tables regarding the 2010 Commonwealth election held on Saturday 21 August. • The tables contain: national, state and regional summaries; electoral division details; two-party preferred figures; and party strengths in the

ISSN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Executive summary • Recent events in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region have been used by analysts to draw insight into how political change occurs in authoritarian regimes. Several of these analyses have looked at what events in the MENA region

ISBN 1834-9854 Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services The context for the 2011-12 Budget differs considerably in some respects from that of last year’s Budget. The 2010-11 Budget was framed in the context of the Global Financial Crisis and the resulting sharp deterioration in the world economy, the worst since