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Policy Online Most Viewed 2015

The most popular publications from Policy Online during 2015, based on the number of page visits.

Also, for the first time this year, we list the Top 10 contributors. Thank you to all contributors for increasing the depth and scope of APO.
2015 Top Contributors

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2015 Most Viewed - Built & Natural Environments
2015 Most Viewed - Business & Economics
2015 Most Viewed - Culture & Communications
2015 Most Viewed - Education & Training
2015 Most Viewed - Health & Wellbeing
2015 Most Viewed - Indigenous
2015 Most Viewed - Politics & Social Issues
2015 Most Viewed - Science & Technology
Communication & Media Collection - recommended 2015
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Research

Blood money: paying for pathology services

Grattan Institute
22 February 2016
Stephen Duckett

Calls for changes to ensure patients are protected from out-of-pocket charges and taxpayers get to share the savings from economies of scale and efficiency gains.

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Inequality and higher education: a class act

TJ Ryan Foundation
19 February 2016
Stephen Parker

Professor Parker's speech addresses changes over the last fifty years to Australia's higher education sector, and to levels of societal inequality in Australia, drawing comparisons and identifying links between the two.

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Temporal distribution of crime in Victorian night-time entertainment precincts

Crime Statistics Agency
18 February 2016

There is an established relationship between crime and areas with a high density of licensed premises (night-time entertainment precincts). Various initiatives have been implemented with the aim of reducing harms that arise as a result of alcohol consumption in NTE precincts but measuring the effectiveness of these initiatives is complicated.

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Women and payday lending

Digital Finance Analytics
18 February 2016
Gill North, Martin North

Women's use of payday lending has increased 110% since 2005.

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ACMA snapshot: December quarter 2015

Australian Communications and Media Authority
18 February 2016
Australian Communications and Media Authority

This quarterly snapshot has been developed to provide stakeholders with an overview of some of the ACMA’s broad and diverse activities.

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Crises, disasters and politics: walking the tightrope

Policy Online
18 February 2016
Jacqui Ewart, Hamish McLean, Kate Ames

Based on collaborative and ongoing research, this discussion paper considers crisis and disaster management and its intersection with the role of politicians in communicating with various publics before, during and after crises and disasters. 

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Australian infrastructure plan

Infrastructure Australia
17 February 2016
Infrastructure Australia

Presents the infrastructure challenges and opportunities Australia faces over the next 15 years and the solutions required.

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Home and away: child and youth homelessness report

Mission Australia
16 February 2016
Mission Australia

According to the 2011 Census, some 44,000 children and young people in Australia are homeless. The reality is worse; many others are ‘hidden homeless’ who are not counted in the official statistics.

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Social group memberships in retirement are associated with reduced risk of premature death: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study

BMJ Open
16 February 2016
Niklas Steffen, Tegan Cruwy, Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Alexander Haslam

Examines the extent to which membership in social groups following retirement determines quality of life and mortality.

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ACOSS Budget priorities statement 2016-17

Australian Council of Social Service
16 February 2016
Australian Council of Social Service

This submission urges action to reform wasteful or poorly targeted tax and direct expenditures, investment to address gaps in the safety net and a fiscal commitment to fund health, education and social services through and beyond the forward estimates.

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New Zealanders' experiences of organ donation and transplantation

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2015
Shaw, Rhonda M
New Zealand Sociology

This report provides a summary account of research findings and analysis from two linked studies. The first study, Perceptions of bio-identity in organ donation and transplantation, was undertaken from 2008 to 2010 and was funded by a Marsden Fund grant (07-VUW-028 SOC). The second study, A...

No country for old maids?: Talking about the 'man drought' [Book Review]

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2015
Chambers, Amber
New Zealand Sociology

Review(s) of: No country for old maids?: Talking about the 'man drought', by August, Hannah (2015), Wellington, BWB Books....

Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy [Book Review]

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2015
West-Newman, Catherine Lane
New Zealand Sociology

Review(s) of: Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy, by Maureen Molloy and Wendy Larner (2013), Wiley-Blackwell.

"Intersectionality revisited: Moving beyond the contours of race, class, gender" - Notes on an Intersectionality Symposium

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2015
Nakhid, Camille
Majavu, Anna
Bowleg, Lisa
Mooney, Shelagh
Ryan, Irene
Mayeda, David
Fu, Mengzhu
Hickey, Huhana
Sumeo, Karanina
Wilson, Shakeisha
Crothers, Charles
Aguirre, Alwin
Halstead, Di
New Zealand Sociology

At a ground-breaking symposium on intersectionality convened by AUT's Business School, Pacific Academic Staff Team and Pacific Media Centre on 5 November 2014, keynote speaker Dr Lisa Bowleg, of George Washington University in the USA, spoke by video on new advances in intersectionality...

Culturally safe spaces for Pacific education journeys from the periphery to the centre

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2015
Fairbairn-Dunlop, Tagaloatele Peggy
New Zealand Sociology

When it was suggested I look back on my education journey I knew my migration story was likely mirrored in each of you. So bearing in mind APSTE's long history as a formally recognised national group for Pacific educators, I decided to focus on the beauty and power of small culturally safe...

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