About submissions

The following information about submissions is available on our website:

Name of individual or organisation responsible for the submission. Personal details of individual submitters, except name and state or country of residence, are removed from submissions before they are published on the website.
The date that the Commission received the submission.
The number of pages contained in the submission. This figure excludes material which is not published on the website, e.g. confidential content, attachments.
Submissions containing material supplied in confidence, are indicated with an asterisk ( * ). These submissions (or parts of submissions) are not published on the website and are not available to the public.
Submissions containing attachments, indicated with a hash ( # ). Some attachments are not published on the website, but can be made available by contacting the inquiry team.

Please note:

Submissions will remain on the Commission's website indefinitely;
Copyright in submissions resides with the author(s), not with the Productivity Commission.

Anyone requiring assistance to access any submission should contact the Web Editor. Please note the following:

Submissions are published on the website as rich text format (rtf) files and printed portable document format (pdf) files. Winzip Archives are used for files larger than 2 MB and when a submission contains more than one file.
PDF files published from 1 November 2003 onwards have been printed using Adobe Acrobat Distiller 6.0, and to be read require the installation of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or 6.0. PDF files published before that date have been printed using previous versions of Adobe Acrobat Distiller.
Submissions (or parts of submissions) may be supplied to us as a pdf file only. They are indicated with a tilde sign ( ~ ). If another format is required, please contact the Web Editor by phone on 03 9653 2264 or email to webmaster@pc.gov.au.
Submissions (or parts of submissions) which have been supplied to us in formats (e.g. paper copies), that are not electronic text files, have where possible been published as rtf and printed pdf files. They are indicated with a plus sign ( + ).
Submissions which have not yet been converted to text files have been published as image scanned pdf files. They are indicated with a percent sign ( % ). These files cannot be read by screen readers.

Further information is available in our accessibility statement and our notes on downloading files.