Utilities Reform in 21st Century Australia: Providing the Essentials 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 theprocess. Although by the mid-1990s all states and territories and the Australian Government were committed to reforming utilities as part of the National Competition Policy, not all pursued this reform with the same degree of speed and breadth of action. The broad trends of economic reform inAustralia, and abroad, are also touched upon, to provide an outline of the wider context in which the reform of the utilities occurred. This book, therefore, explores the relationship between politics and society on the one hand and economic reform on the other; as well on as the efforts ofgovernments in Australia to promote economic growth and the wealth of Australians in an increasingly complex and challenging global economic climate.

Utilities Reform in Twenty-First Century Australia: Providing the Essentials

Business & Money

Cohen, Bruce

Abbott, Malcolm

Economics

Oxford University Press

Millions of Canadians are covered by pension plans in one form or anotherâ??whether that's CPP a company plan, or personal RRSPs. But pensions are the benefit least understood by employees. They're confusing and complex, but understanding pensions is crucial to every Canadian's financial security in retirement. Since its initial publication, The Pension Puzzle has become the definitive book on the subject. Now completely revised and updated, The Pension Puzzle remains a true "owner's manual" for anyone with a pension plan: 
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<li>Explains what pensions are; how all the different types work; how government, employer plans, and RRSPs fit together; and how to judge whether your employer's plan is a good one.</li> <li>Shows you how to determine how much income you'll need in retirement; how much government benefits and employer plans will provide for you; and how aggressive you have to be with your own RRSP investments to supplement these other plans.</li> <li>Includes a new chapter on the funding crisis that many plans are facing, as the recent stock market plunge drove many into a serious deficit-how it happened and what it means to you.</li> <li>Features new information on: federal budget changes to pension and RRSP limits; changes in pension standards and regulations; pension plans that are not fully indexed for inflation; LIRAs, LIFs, and LRIFS; websites and other references; and much more.</li> <li>Helps you make sound decisions about your pension plan and how it affects your financial future, whether youâ??re planning your retirement, changing jobs, handling a divorce, or making decisions about early retirement. Includes practical forms and worksheets, tips, and examples.</li> <li>The Pension Puzzle is not just for those about to retire. It's for every working Canadian who needs to make decisions about their pension plan and how it affects their financial future.</li> </ul>

The Pension Puzzle: Your Complete Guide to Government Benefits, RRSPs, and Employer Plans

FitzGerald, Brian

wiley

An "owner's manual" for every Canadian with a pension plan. Millions of Canadians are covered by pension plans in one form or another-whether that's CPP or a company plan, or personal RRSPs. But pensions are the benefit least understood by employees. They're confusing and complex, but understanding pensions is crucial to every Canadian's financial security in retirement. Since its initial publication, The Pension Puzzle has become the definitive book on the subject. Now completely revised and updated, The Pension Puzzle remains a true owner's manual for anyone with a pension plan. The Pension Puzzle is not just for those about to retire. It's for every working Canadian who needs to make decisions about their pension plan and how it affects their financial future.

Personal Finance

The money adviser: The Canadian guide to successful financial planning

Stoddart

If you were to splice the DNA's of Walter Mitty and Salvador Dali, or Cuisinart together the collected works of Louis Simpson and Dean Young, you might get the poems of Bruce Cohen. His suburban speakers are often cleaning the garage or steaming off wallpaper in the bedroom, but secretly they are involved in criminal adventures of the imagination, in subtle and hilarious cultural critique, in fantasies of quiet desperation. These are rampages of irony, tenderness and wit, furnished with the verbal wizardry and bravado of a quiet maniac.-This is terrific work from start to finish, by a bright new poetry star in the American sky. --Tony Hoagland Bruce Cohen's Disloyal Yo-Yo is not a collection of poems so much as it is a full-blown surreal but humane visionary account of what it means to be alive in the 21st century. His imagination sweeps across his experience like the "Super Doppler" he hopes might "hover over our lives to transmit intimate newscasts." And what gets transmitted in Cohen's poems is not only the intimacy of human relationships but the strange, quirky, unpredictable transformations, "a tornado of patio furniture", that refreshes and reinvents our world. --Michael Collier Like the paintings of Rene Magritte, the songs of Tom Waits, and the Coen brothers' films, Bruce Cohen's poetry offers observations that are simultaneously razor-sharp recognizable and arrestingly askew. His poems are haunting and hilarious, coolly surreal and stingingly poignant. As the best literature always does, his poems knock me off-balance as they expand my understanding of the absurdities, challenges, and dividends of modern life. Cohen sits at the top of my short list of favorite contemporary poets. ---Wally Lamb Bruce Cohen's poems, which I have known for years, keep coming back to me in some askew way that leads me forward. He is one of the most loving and unpretentious humorous poets I know, and the incisiveness of his craft is always guided by awareness. He means poetry to be quick--bared, vital, bold, original, alive--and he pulls all this off again and again. Finally, a whole collection to begin to do Bruce Cohen's poetry some justice. --William Olsen

Disloyal Yo-Yo

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Dream Horse Press

Poetry. While writing SWERVE, Bruce Cohen decided to avoid addressing a particular audience. That is, not an audience of poetry readers. "I just wanted to talk intimately to myself, my family, and my friends," he says. As a natural consequence, while building these poems Cohen struck upon an essentially authentic voice. With his guard down, with his most intimate familiars as his only audience, he was able to write with startling honesty. The brilliance of these poems is the mixture of that honesty with humor, with sentimentality, and sometimes with horror. In these poems you will find a long-lined American surrealistic sensibility. There is new discovery of language here, playfulness with both vernacular and formal diction. Simply put, you're going to love this book.

Swerve

Self-Help

Relationships

Black Lawrence Press

Poetry. "These are poems of unyielding, good-of-heart sensibility, but always at the edge of where the world is hanging on. The words that tell these lives gather themselves at the far reaches of the experiences they reveal, and the speaker is often the unelected rudder in a world that otherwise could—and does—turn so easily upside down. 'Maybe love is just being very polite,' asserts the self-effacing narrator. These poems and this narrator quietly show that it is much more, but that we must indeed work at it heroically every moment. These poems help us to understand why."—Alberto Rios

Placebo Junkies Conspiring with the Half Asleep

Monopoly Control: Government Ownership and Control of Network Utility Industries in Australia from 1788 to 1988

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Excusercise: Inexcusable Excuses for not Exercising

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sachs, Michael L.

Exercise & Fitness

Excusercise, LLC

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