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Looking beyond offenders to the needs of victims and communities

Mick Gooda, Emilie Priday, Louise McDermott | Indigenous Law Bulletin
19 June 2013 | This article examines the applications for justice reinvestment in Australia, primarily in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, although some consideration has also been given to vulnerable groups including juvenile offenders, people with cognitive impairment and people with disabilities.

Understanding the patterns, characteristics and trends in the housing sector labour force in Australia - final report

Tony Dalton, Ralph Horne, Prem Chhetri, Jonathan Corcoran | Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
19 June 2013 | This study finds that the availability of labour for housing construction is not a contributor to poor housing affordability in Victoria or Queensland.

Film, television and digital games

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
18 June 2013 | This publication presents results from a survey of businesses mainly engaged in film and video production and post-production services and a census of businesses mainly engaged in television broadcasting, television channel provision and digital game development.

The critical decade 2013: climate change science, risks and responses

Climate Commission
17 June 2013 | This report argues that global society must virtually decarbonise in the next 30-35 years, and therefore most of the fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground.

Towards better Indigenous health data

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
17 June 2013 | This report describes Phase 1 of the support and evaluation project of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets.

Summary of Australian Indigenous health, 2012

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
17 June 2013 | This paper provides a plain language summary of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, with brief information about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, health problems and common risk factors.

Congestion costing critique

Todd Litman | Victoria Transport Policy Institute (CAN)
17 June 2013 | The Urban Mobility Report (UMR) is a widely-cited study that quantifies and monetizes traffic congestion costs in U.S. metropolitan regions. This report critically examines the UMR’s assumptions and methods.

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).

Report on the use of linked data relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
14 June 2013 | This report reviews data linkage activities that have an Indigenous focus and is a companion document to the National Best Practice Guidelines for Data Linkage activities relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Thematic list of projects using linked data relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
14 June 2013 | This document thematically lists data linkage activities that have an Indigenous focus, and is a companion document to the Report on the Use of Linked Data Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Cultural and creative activity satellite accounts, Australia 2013

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
14 June 2013 | In Australia and internationally, there is strong interest in the role of ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ activity in the economy. This paper discusses the feasibility of developing economic measures for these activities.

Review of kidney disease among Indigenous people

Sasha Stumpers, Neil Thomson | Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
14 June 2013 | This review provides an overview of the burden of kidney disease among Indigenous Australians.

The future land warfare report 2013

Directorate of Army Research and Analysis (DARA)
14 June 2013 | This paper presents the Australian Army's assessment of the future land operating environment out to 2035.

Australia’s country towns 2050: what will a climate adapted settlement pattern look like?

Andrew Beer, Selina Tually, Michael Kroehn, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
14 June 2013 | This report examines inland settlements and the impact of extreme events, a warming and drying southern climate and increased costs of structural economic change and degradation of infrastructure.

Community based adaptation to climate change: the Arabana

Melissa Nursey-Bray, Deane Fergie, Veronica Arbon, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
14 June 2013 | The project was a multi method, cross cultural and inter-disciplinary adaptation project aimed to assess the resilience and vulnerability of the Arabana people and then develop adaptation options.

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.

Co-creative publics and publication design practice

Marius Foley | School of Media and Communication
13 June 2013 | This thesis argues that publication design is moving from a broadcast medium to a social and relational one, where the audience participates in the production of meaning (or sense-making) by attaining a closer relationship to the production of design.

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.

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.

Adapt between the flags: enhancing capacity to cope with climate change and to leverage adaptation

Marcello Sanò, Russell Richards, Oz Sahin, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
12 June 2013 | The objective of this research project was to employ a range of methods to identify climate change adaptation options and to explore adaptive capacity and pathways for its enhancement, combining stakeholder engagement, Systems Thinking, System Dynamics and Bayesian modelling within five case studies.

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