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Jack Dearden

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Alcohol and homicide in Australia

A key finding of this research is that alcohol is equally likely to be implicated in intimate-partner homicides as it is in all other homicides
Australian crime: facts and figures 2008

This report covers different types of recorded crimes, their place of occurrence, victim details, responses of criminal justice agencies, and government resources directed to deal with crime

Homicide in Australia: 2006-07 National Homicide Monitoring Program annual report

This report presents findings from, and an overview of key characteristics of the 18th annual collection of homicide data (2006-07), and trends over time, including details on victims, offenders, and incident circumstances

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

WANTED: Communications Projects (Melbourne)
16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.

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