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New Research

Australia’s commitment in Afghanistan: moving to a more comprehensive approach

02 September 2010

This paper discusses the implications of Australia’s new role in Uruzgan and advances a number of recommendations to better manage the transition of security while building its capacity for improved governance and long-term socioeconomic growth.

Migration to Australia since federation: a guide to the statistics

02 September 2010Although permanent migration intakes over the last few years have been high in comparison to previous years, Australia’s recent population growth reflects a significant increase in temporary, not permanent migration.

The lay of the land in 2025

02 September 2010The global financial crisis is a powerful reminder of how bad we are at forecasting, yet we continue to have a fairly strong consensus view of where the world economy is likely to head over the next couple of decades.

Child Support Agency, Department of Human Services: Investigation of a parent's 'capacity to pay'

02 September 2010The report looks into the CSA's power to go beyond a parent’s taxable income to assess child support obligations.

Police-referred restorative justice for juveniles in Australia

02 September 2010The paper provides an overview of the legislative and policy context of restorative justice measures for juveniles in each Australian state and territory, highlighting the diverse characteristics of current practices.

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Centrelink: Review rights for Income managed people in the Northern Territory, August 2010

02 September 2010The report concerns an investigation into a failure to provide rights of review to the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and Administrative Appeals Tribunal for individuals subject to Income Management as part of the NT intervention.

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Creative Economy

E-science and data support services: a study of ARL member institutions

29 August 2010

This study synthesizes data collected in a 2009 survey with subsequent interviews of several responding libraries to build an understanding of how libraries can contribute to e-science activities in their institution and identify organizations and institutions that have similar interests in e-science to leverage research library interests.

Reclaiming the wasteland: Samson and Delilah and the historical perception and construction of Indigenous knowledges in Australian cinema

29 August 2010The purpose of this paper is to examine reaction to the film Samson and Delilah  and where this reaction has positioned the film in Australian filmmaking history.

Economics

Education

Health

Goreen narrkwarren ngrn-toura – healthy family air

Goreen narrkwarren ngrn-toura – healthy family air

30 August 2010This report has been written to gather information about the types of activities and programs that might work to reduce smoking amongst pregnant Indigenous women.

Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice

  • Nola Purdie, Pat Dudgeon, Roz Walker eds.
  • Kulunga Research Network
30 August 2010This book offers a high quality, comprehensive examination of issues and strategies influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. 

International

Justice

Social Policy

Commentary

Political pain but no gain

31 August 2010In the Adelaide Review, John Spoehr looks at how Labor failed to get its message across

Vote grows Greener

30 August 2010Labor as well as the Liberals disregard the consequences of this trend at their peril, writes Mike Steketee in the Australian

Dealing with labour shortages

30 August 2010Older workers are an important element of a diverse response to labour shortages, writes Philip Taylor and his research collaborators

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Audio

Art and the environment

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27 August 2010A discussion about how artists and their work can play a significant part in raising awareness of the environment and climate change.

Reasons to care about aged care

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16 August 2010 In this election debate, recorded at a residential aged care facility in Melbourne, the National Interest scrutinises the policies of Australia's three largest political parties.

Environment

Once more with feeling: Principles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the wellbeing of most Australians

30 August 2010This paper spells out the economic principles that should underpin an effective, efficient and equitable approach to reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions at the lowest possible cost.

Increasing our understanding of homeless men: the Michael project

30 August 2010Combining homeless and accommodation services, assertive case management and eleven specialist allied health and support services, The Michael Project is described as a nationally significant service innovation.

Video

A tour of babel: Exhibitions and fairs in a shape-shifting art world

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20 August 2010In his address to the Melbourne Art Fair, internationally renowned curator and art critic Robert Storr looks at the growth of exhibitions and art fairs and their impact.

Privacy in the information age free-for-all

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12 August 2010"Privacy in a broad sense is under attack these days on a range of fronts: electronic surveillance, terrorism laws, growing police powers, business practices associated with information mining and marketing, and new technologies."

Indigenous

Websites

Casualties - ADF: Australian Defence Force casualties in Afghanistan

30 August 2010This site keeps a record of all ADF personnel and service animal deaths and injuries in the current war in Afghanistan.

A social media measurement plan

27 August 2010For those seriously addicted to monitoring their online footprints, Devon Smith provides an extensive list of tools, metrics and reasons to prioritise your social media presence.

Digital Inclusion Initiative

27 August 2010This initiative aims to deliver equal and affordable access to computers and the internet to all Australians. Universal access to information and communication technology has become a basic infrastructure requirement in civil and democratic societies.

Politics

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Noticeboard

Candidate materials: Can you help?
19 August 2010

Inside Story is keen to look at the advice sent by each of the parties to candidates during the current election campaign. We are looking for daily 'talking points', 'cheat sheets', media releases, and so on. Having reviewed the literature sent by candidates to voters in some of the ultra-marginal during the campaign, Inside Story wants to conduct a similar analysis, after the election, of the various forms of communications sent from campaign headquarters to candidates not just in marginal seats but in seats of every kind.

Mature-age motherhood study - participants needed
19 August 2010

Can an older mother enjoy motherhood with meaningful paid work sidelined while her children are young? Or pay the price of juggling if both are to take centre stage? What is it like to contemplate being in your fifties or sixties and caring for a teenager when your friends and family who started earlier are retiring and leading ‘the good life'?

These are hard questions with no easy answers that Marie Roberts, a psychologist and doctoral student at Swinburne University, is exploring in her research into delayed motherhood.

Maria Tumarkin shortlisted for Otherland
12 August 2010

Dr Maria Tumarkin from Swinburne’s Institute for Social Research has made The Age book of the year non-fiction shortlist for her story, Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter.

Books

More than luck: Ideas Australia needs now

More than luck: Ideas Australia needs now

  • Edited by Mark Davis & Miriam Lyons
  • Centre for Policy Development
Edited by Mark Davis & Miriam Lyons A collection of ideas for citizens who want real change. A to-do list for politicians looking to base public policies on the kind of future Australians really want. More Than Luck shows what’s needed to share this country’s good luck amongst all Australians – now and in the future.

20 Years of the Internet

  • AARNET
On October 29, 1969 at about 10.30 in the evening, a historic event took place in California which was to change the world. Two computers – one at the Stanford Research Institute and another at the University of California at Los Angeles – ‘talked’ to each other…

Policy Guides

Between a rock and a hard place

Fitzroy Legal Service is pleased to announce a new community sector workers manual to the legal system is now available to download for free.

30-08-10

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