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Peng Yu

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What's love got to do with it? Homogamy and dyadic approaches to understanding marital instability

This paper investigates individual and couple characteristics associated with marital instability and finds that characteristics of men and women can have quite different impacts on marital stability

Mortality of children and parental disadvantage

 

This paper from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference investigates the correlation between mortality risk of children and parental disadvantage at individual level

Higher education, the bane of fertility?

Peng Yu analyses the results of a study of the effect of the education on people’s fertility expectation in Australia, using the first wave of the HILDA Survey conducted in 2001

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

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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.

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