This paper provides an assessment of offenders who commit human trafficking, slavery and slave-like crimes in Australia. Foreword: There is a lack of international and Australian research about offenders who have been convicted of human trafficking, slavery and slave-like practices. In Australia, 15 offenders have been convicted of such crimes. The publicly available court judgments...

This publication presents information about the educational experience and associated characteristics of persons aged 15 to 74 years. Statistics in this publication were collected in May 2013 as a supplement to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS). Information collected in the survey includes: labour force characteristics; participation in education in...

This research report investigates whether children in regional areas experience a "tyranny of distance" or a "tyranny of disadvantage". In other words, are the gaps in children's development in regional areas compared to children living in the major cities explained by their distance from the major cities (remoteness), or is it because many regional areas...

This report presents the key findings from the Survey of Recently Separated Families 2012. This study examined the experiences of 6,119 parents who separated between 31 July 2010 and 31 December 2011. The research, commissioned and funded by Attorney-General's Department, focuses on parents whose main use of family law system services occurred around 2011 and...

This publication contains state and territory estimates of Gross domestic product and its components, in current price and volume terms, for the years 2004-05 to 2012-13.