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Digital activism: Passive participation and divergence of ideas in online social movements

Nathan Robert Bromberg | Department of Business Information Systems

19 June 2013 | Focusing on the Occupy Auckland and its ancillaries as the unit of analysis, this thesis explores the ways in which information technology is being used to engage people in social movements.

The UK administrative data research network: improving access for research and policy

Economic and Social Research Council

31 December 2012 | Developers of this report worked with government departments, academic experts, and funding agencies and representatives from all four nations in the UK to examine the best procedures and mechanisms to make administrative data available for research safely.

Summary report to the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee

World Wildlife Fund Australia (WWF-Australia)

16 June 2013 | This report is an update on implementation of recommendations of World Heritage Committee decision: 36 COM 7B.8, Great Barrier Reef (Australia) (N 154).

Organisational sustainability of small councils

Victorian Auditor-General's Office (VAGO)

12 June 2013 | This report finds that councils generally cannot demonstrate their effectiveness and whether they are having a material impact on improving their sustainability.

The resettlement of refugees in Australia: a bibliography (5th rev. ed.)

Klaus Neumann | Swinburne Institute for Social Research (SISR)

13 June 2013 | Covering relevant scholarship, this bibliography lists books, articles, reports and Masters and doctoral theses about the resettlement of refugees in Australia since World War II.

Review of current local government reform processes in Australia and New Zealand

Alex Gooding | Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG)

13 June 2013 | This snapshot examines the nearly 30 review and reform initiatives taking place in jurisdictions across Australasia between February and March 2013, continuing a period of change and reform in local government which dates back at least two decades.

Women in leadership: understanding the gender gap

Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA)

13 June 2013 | This publication examines why women continue to be under-represented in leadership positions and paid less than their male colleagues in the Australian workforce, looking at the full spectrum of issues from unconscious bias to tax arrangements and childcare.

Learning as a driver for change

Leone Wheeler, Shanti Wong | Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG)

12 June 2013 | This explores how learning partnerships between councils, their communities and learning organisations can help improve social outcomes, build community capability and strengthen community governance.

Using science as evidence in public policy

Kenneth Prewitt, Thomas A. Schwandt, and Miron L. Straf, Editors | National Academies Press

17 October 2012 | This US report investigates why scientific evidence is important to policy making and argues that an extensive body of research on knowledge utilisation has not led to any widely accepted explanation of what it means to use science in public policy.

The national cloud computing strategy

Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE)

29 May 2013 | This strategy outlines the government's vision for Australians to create and use world class cloud services to boost innovation and productivity across the digital economy.

Oaths and affirmations made by the executive and members of federal parliament since 1901

Deirdre McKeown | Parliamentary Library

03 June 2013 | This paper explores why members of the Commonwealth Parliament choose to either swear an oath or make an affirmation, and explains the history behind these practices.

Draft parks and open spaces strategic action plan

Auckland Council

30 May 2013 | This plan sets out a ten-year direction for Auckland’s parks and open spaces, explains how they will contribute to the Auckland Plan and invites public submissions.

Gnarabup community planting after bushfires © Blair Darvill, South West Catchment Council

Limp, Leap or Learn? Developing legal frameworks for climate change adaptation planning in Australia

Andrew Macintosh, Anita Foerster, Jan McDonald | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)

30 May 2013 | This report identifies the range of legal tools and instruments that can be used to influence the spatial distribution and nature of land use and development and hence the exposure and vulnerability of settlements to climate hazards.

This report identifies the range of legal

tools and instruments that can be used to influence the spatial distribution and nature

of land use and development and hence the exposure and vulnerability of settlements

to climate hazardsThis report identifies the range of legal tools and instruments that can be used to influence the spatial distribution and nature of land use and development and hence the exposure and vulnerability of settlements to climate hazards.

Auckland Council research strategy and priority research areas 2013 - 2016

Research, Investigations and Monitoring Unit, Auckland Council

30 March 2013 | The Auckland Plan sets the long-term (30-year) direction for Auckland with thirteen strategic directions across social, economic, environmental and cultural domains. These strategic directions, and their associated priorities, provide the framework for this shorter-term research strategy.

False economies part 2: doing less with less

Christopher Stone | Centre for Policy Development (CPD)

27 May 2013 | This second installment of CPD’s three-part "false economies" report provides examples of where peremptory cuts would have led to increased costs as well as reduced performance.

Commentary

The government’s media reforms: what 499 readers thought

Ken Haley, Andrew Dodd | Inside Story

17 June 2013 | What we think about media regulation correlates strongly with what we read, write Ken Haley and Andrew Dodd in Inside Story.

Simpler, and better

Richard Denniss | Inside Story

16 June 2013 | A new book by Barack Obama’s former “regulatory czar” shows how government can harness the benefits of behavioural economics

Taking politics to the supermarket

Marian Sawer

16 June 2013 | Political consumerism has become an increasingly significant form of political engagement

Topic Guides

VicHealth local government action guides - preventing violence against women

VicHealth | VicHealth

13 November 2012 | This guide is one of ten outlining a range of evidence-informed actions that councils may consider when preparing their Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans and other strategies.

Public sector audit committees - Independent assurance and advice for Chief Executives and Boards

Australian National Audit Office

13 August 2012 | Audit Committees have an important role in the governance framework of entities by providing an independent source of assurance and advice to Chief Executives/Boards. This guide provides guidance on the operation of the Audit Committees of public sector entities.

Wicked problems: do they exist and does it matter?

Public Policy Institute - Australian Catholic University

12 December 2011 | Recently, all kinds of problems and issues are being called wicked, not in the sense of evil, but complex, difficult to understand and resistant to solving.

Videos

Debating Australia's voting age

Ian McAllister, Amy MacKinnon, Uma Patel | ANU Vision

04 April 2013 | ANU undergraduate students debate Professor Ian McAllister over whether Australia's voting age should be lowered.

Permission taken

Dan Gillmor | Berkman Center for Internet and Society

25 March 2013 | As governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an online surveillance state, Dan Gillmor suggests steps we can take as individuals to be more secure and free, and to take back the permissions we're losing.

Ahdaf Soueif: On art and politics

Ahdaf Soueif | Slow TV, The Monthly

14 February 2013 | Reporting on the ground as the dramatic events unfolded in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Soueif witnessed the impact of the revolution on the people campaigning and celebrating in the streets, as well as on the writers and artists working in the city.

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