This report highlights some of the ways in which Australian families with children under 18 years old have changed or remained stable. Key messages This fact sheet examines the extent and nature of change in household and family forms. The broad trends observed include the following: Family size has decreased, with the proportion of those...

Summary This report presents information on expenditure for diabetes in Australia in 2008-09, as well as information on how this expenditure has changed in the last decade and how it is expected to grow in the future. Expenditure is presented by sex, age and diabetes type for 2000-01 to 2008-09. The report also looks at...

Malicious hoax calls for service and suspicious fires are a significant burden to the community financially and in the potential danger they present, yet little is known about the dynamics associated with their prevalence. The present research is the first of its kind in Australia to comprehensively examine these offences using unit-level location data supplied...

This report recommends stricter limits to reduce the number people with disabilities being sterilised without their consent.

Foreword Studies of the specific deterrent effect of criminal sanctions have mostly focused on prison. This is, in some ways, unfortunate as non-custodial penalties are far more frequently imposed than custodial penalties. In this study, the authors use propensity score matching to assess whether the length of a bond or suspended sentence makes any difference...