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Victorian bushfire recovery three year report

  • Department of Planning and Community Development

02 February 2012This report focuses on the progress and achievements made over the last 12 months including the delivery of programs, funding and support to communities and individuals affected by the 2009 bushfires.

Australian economic indicators, Feb 2012

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics

02 February 2012Primarily a reference document, this publication provides a broad basis for analysis and research on the Australian economy and includes statistics that can be applied to both macro-economic and sectoral analyses.

Improving Indigenous community governance

02 February 2012Strengthening the organisational capacity of both Indigenous and government organisations is critical to raising the health, wellbeing and prosperity of Indigenous Australian communities.

Dental health behaviours among children 2002-2004: the use of fluoride toothpaste, fluoride tablets and drops, and fluoride mouthrinse

  • Jason M. Armfield, A. John Spencer
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

02 February 2012The majority of Australian children engage in oral health behaviours that are in line with current Australian guidelines on the use of fluoride products.

You be the judge - VCE Legal Studies teachers' kit

  • Sentencing Advisory Council

02 February 2012The kit provides the tools and knowledge teachers need to deliver engaging classes for VCE Legal Studies. It uses real case studies, with names and some details changed.

Care and support of male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence

  • Wynne Russell, and others
  • Sexual Violence Research Initiative

02 February 2012Sexual violence against men and boys is a pervasive feature of armed conflicts. This paper provides commentary, recent data, and promising programming and therapeutic approaches in the care and support of male survivors.

Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition

  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

01 February 2012Over half (51%) of Indigenous people living in non-remote parts of Australia aged 15 and over do very little or no exercise, compared with 33% of non-Indigenous Australians (AIHW 2011a).

The use and abuse of economic modelling in Australia

  • Richard Denniss
  • The Australia Institute

01 February 2012Economic modelling can and often does make a useful contribution to policy debates, but the fact that it sometimes can should not be confused with the conclusion that it always will.

Youth Justice Conferences versus Children’s Court: a comparison of time to finalisation

  • Elizabeth Moore
  • NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

31 January 2012This paper compares police-referred youth justice conferences (YJCs), court referred YJCs and Children’s Court matters on the time to finalisation, and assess the contribution of index offence- and/or offender-related characteristics as potential confounders.

The use of police cautions and youth justice conferences in NSW in 2010

  • Elizabeth Moore
  • NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

31 January 2012This paper assesses whether the philosophy of the Young Offenders Act (YOA) is being adhered to in respect to the nature of offences being diverted and the use of the hierarchical approach to sanctioning.

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Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access released
13 January 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access examines the recent East Asia Summit, bilateral alliances in the Asia Pacific, the future of Timor-Leste, women's participation in peace processes and more.

Read QA online: http://www.aiia.asn.au/qa/qa-vol4-issue1

Review of the Australia Council for the Arts
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Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts ahead of the development of the nation's first National Cultural Policy in almost 20 years.

Access and equity inquiry
20 December 2011

On 18 November 2011, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator the Hon Kate Lundy, announced the establishment of an independent panel of eminent community leaders to conduct an inquiry into Australian Government services to ensure they are responsive to the needs of Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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