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Accounting And Accountability For Disability Benefits: A Foucauldian Study Of The History Of Disability Benefit Protocols In Australia (1909-1961), Mona Nikidehaghani, Michael Ibrahim Mehmet
Accounting And Accountability For Disability Benefits: A Foucauldian Study Of The History Of Disability Benefit Protocols In Australia (1909-1961), Mona Nikidehaghani, Michael Ibrahim Mehmet
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Public welfare payments have played a central role in providing financial-and service-based support for the disabled in Australia since the early part of the twentieth century. This study examines the role that discursive regimes of accounting and accountability have played in these regimes between 1909 and 1961. By examining the Means Test, a key technique and strategy used to qualify or disqualify citizens as disabled, the paper demonstrates the salient role that accounting techniques have played in these governmental programs. Through this demonstration the study reveals the array of implications for the disabled of accounting techniques applied to their identities …
Is Islamic Finance Wanted In Australia?, George Mickhail
Is Islamic Finance Wanted In Australia?, George Mickhail
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
PwC and EY had independently found that the global market in Islamic fi nance has been growing at an average annual rate of 17% since 2009 and will continue to do so until 2017.
Household Distributional And Revenue Recycling Effects Of The Carbon Price In Australia, Disna Sajeewani, Mahinda Siriwardana, Judith Mcneill
Household Distributional And Revenue Recycling Effects Of The Carbon Price In Australia, Disna Sajeewani, Mahinda Siriwardana, Judith Mcneill
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The Australian Government introduced a carbon tax from 1 July 2012. The then opposition party leader, now Prime Minister, introduced legislation to repeal the tax. Amongst the many issues being debated is that of the incidence of the tax. In this study, we explore household consumption and income changes arising from a A$23 carbon price employing a computable general equilibrium model (entitled A3E-G). The model has been calibrated using a social accounting matrix database of Australia with 10 household income groups. This carbon price generates A$6.39 billion revenue while reducing Australia's carbon emissions by 11%. The empirical evidence suggests household …
Australia Slow To Capitalise On Islamic Finance Opportunities, George Mickhail
Australia Slow To Capitalise On Islamic Finance Opportunities, George Mickhail
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
Australia has one of the most efficient and competitive 'full service' financial sectors in the Asia Pacific region and is situated close to the fastest-growing region in the world. The Islamic finance industry is not only growing rapidly in the world, but is also showing stability and resilience in the face of instability in the global markets. However, Australia has been slow to capitalize on the opportunity to develop and export Islamic finance services.