Operation
The Governor-General of Australia appoints commissioners for periods of up to five years. Associate Commissioners are appointed by the Treasurer. The Chairperson is a commissioner and heads the commission. The commission also has a public-service staff. The average number of employees in the 2010-2011 financial year was 193.
The Commission has reported on a very wide range of subjects and industry. Due to the in-depth nature of its analysis and influence over government policy, the Productivity Commission is often a useful starting point for information on the Australian economy or specific Australian industries.
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Famous quotes containing the word operation:
“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)