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Heat-Ready: Heatwave awareness, preparedness and adaptive capacity in aged care facilities

Deborah Black, Craig Veitch, Leigh Wilson, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
17 May 2013 | The Heat-Ready study captured information on the current knowledge, policy status, preparedness and adaptive capacity to heatwaves in staff who work in Aged Care Facilities in three Australian states.

Protecting and restoring habitat to help Australia’s threatened species adapt to climate change

Ramona Maggini, Heini Kujala, Martin Taylor, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
17 May 2013 | This study measured the benefits of protecting and restoring habitat of 504 currently threatened species in Australia accounting for spatial and temporal habitat connectivity under climate change.

Broadacre farmers adapting to a changing climate

Ross Kingwell, Lucy Anderton, Nazrul Islam, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
17 May 2013 | This research analysed the finances of farm businesses in southwestern Australia from 2002-2011 to assess successful management capabilities, choices, and education for adapting to a changing climate.

Network governance and climate change adaptation: collaborative responses to the Queensland floods

Susan Kinnear, Kym Patison, Julie Mann, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
17 May 2013 | This research examines ways to build adaptive capacity to climate change and compares social networks through a case study of organisations that responded to Queensland’s 2010–11 major floods.

Young people, social media, social network sites and sexual health communication in Australia

Clifton Westly Evers, Kath Albury, Paul Byron, Kate Crawford | International Journal of Communication 7 (2013)
16 May 2013 | This article presents and discusses the findings from six rural and urban focus groups with young people in Australia about the use of social media and SNS for sexual health communication.

Climate change adaptation strategies for Australian birds

Stephen Garnett, Donald Franklin, Glenn Ehmke, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
16 May 2013 | This research identifies Australian water birds likely to face strong challenges or extinction from climate change and recommends key actions to secure and manage vulnerable regions for the future.

Consumers Health Forum of Australia analysis of the 2013-14 federal budget

Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF)
15 May 2013 | This paper argues that the 2013-14 federal budget does not provide relief for consumers struggling with out-of-pocket health costs.

Inquiry into the gathering and use of criminal intelligence

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement
15 May 2013 | This report brings to light legislative, technological, resource and cultural impediments to the effective gathering and use of criminal intelligence in Australia.

Trends in alcohol and drug related ambulance attendances in Victoria: 2011-12

Belinda Lloyd | Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
14 May 2013 | This report examines non-fatal heroin overdoses in Victoria across 2011-12 in depth using Ambulance Victoria records.    

Mining one percent of Twitter: collections, baselines, sampling

Carolin Gerlitz, Bernhard Rieder | M/C Journal
14 May 2013 | This paper reflects on the affordances of different techniques for making Twitter collections and suggests the use of a random sampling technique, made possible by Twitter’s Streaming Application Programming Interface, for baselining, scoping, and contextualising practices and issues.

National welfare and economic contribution of Australian public libraries

Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
14 May 2013 | A new report from an independent firm of economists has found that Australia’s public libraries deliver benefits that are worth nearly three times the cost of running them – a fact that will come as no surprise to Australia’s 10 million registered library users.

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor – declassified annual report 20th December 2012

Brett Walker | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C)
14 May 2013 | This report reviews the appropriateness and effectiveness of Australia's national security legislation, focusing on the legal defintion of terrorism and on controversial powers such as control orders, preventative detention and coercive questioning.

Council of Australian Governments review of counter-terrorism legislation

Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
14 May 2013 | This report evaluates the operation, effectiveness and implications of key Commonwealth, state and territory counter-terrorism laws.

CityLink, Melbourne

Omega Centre
14 May 2013 | This Project analyses Melbourne's CityLink in terms of the amount that needs to be charged to consumers for investors to make a profit.

Facing the dragon: China policy in a new era

Ross Terrill | Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
13 May 2013 | This paper foresees a peaceful, un-orchestrated China–US competition offering breathing room for Asia’s further progress.

Mitigating impacts of climate change in stream food webs

Ross Thompson, John Beardall, Jason Beringer, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
13 May 2013 | This research investigated threshold relationships between climate and critical aquatic processes and the potential for riparian replanting to adapt temperate south-eastern Australian freshwaters.

Enhancing climate change communication: strategies for profiling and targeting Australian interpretive communities

Donald Hine, Wendy Phillips, Joseph Reser, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
13 May 2013 | This research identified different audiences in Australia and evaluated responses to climate change messages to inform design and targeting of climate change adaptation communication in Australia.

Why we need legislation to address child poverty

Mark Henaghan | Policy Quarterly Volume 9 Number 2
13 May 2013 | This article considers the growing child poverty problem in New Zealand and the immediate and long-term consequences of poverty, and examines whether legislation addressing child poverty is required.

Community wellbeing indicators: measures for local government

Alan Morton, Lorell Edwards | Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG)
13 May 2013 | This research was conducted in partnership with the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) to support a Community Wellbeing Indicators Survey template and discusses how local government might take a consistent approach to measuring the wellbeing of their communities.

Pathways to climate adapted and healthy low income housing

Guy Barnett, Matt Beaty, Dong Chen, and others | National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
13 May 2013 | This report presents the findings from the “Pathways to Climate Adapted and Healthy Low Income Housing” project undertaken by the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship in partnership with two organisation.

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