Guide
Publishing and sharing sensitive data
Sensitive data has often been excluded from discussions about data publication and sharing. It was believed that sharing sensitive data is not ethical or that it is too difficult to do safely. This opinion has changed with greater understanding and use of methods to ‘de-sensitise’ (i.e., confidentialise) data; that is, modify the data to remove...
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Land warfare doctrine 1 - the fundamentals of land power
Drawing on best practices in strategic thinking about land power, this paper is intended to provide the Australian Army with the philosophical guidance for achieving its mission. Introduction War and warfare continue to plague the human race. War remains the most complex and dangerous strategic challenge faced by nations. In the future, warfare will be...
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A new approach to national child protection data: implementation of the Child Protection National Minimum Data Set
Describes the development and implementation of the CP NMDS and highlights key new analyses able to be reported for the first time at the national level. It also outlines the need for ongoing development work. Introduction The need for national unit record level child protection data in Australia has long been recognised by all jurisdictions...
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Competition policy review: draft report
Both the world and Australian economies have changed significantly since the Hilmer Review of the 1990s. The recommendations in this Draft Report seek to bring Australia’s competition policy up to date. The review assessed Australia’s competition policy to see if it is still ‘fit for purpose’, and asks:
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Research paper: methodological approaches for utilising satellite imagery to estimate official crop area statistics (Methodology Advisory Committee), Sep 2014
This paper outlines the challenges in working with satellite imagery data for crop area estimation, and presents some new approaches. Overview A key strategic goal for the ABS is to exploit emerging sources of data to either partially replace, supplement or validate existing data collections in order to reduce costs, improve quality and produce more...
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