Overview: Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world. “Preventing suicide: a global imperative” is the first WHO report of its kind. It aims to increase awareness of the public health significance of suicide and suicide attempts, to make suicide prevention a higher priority on the global public health agenda, and...

This strategy outlines a vision of where Australia's relationship with Japan should be in 2025 and how Australia should get there. Australia’s partnership with Japan is our closest and most mature in the region, and is a model for Australia’s wider engagement with Asia. Australia’s trade with Japan has been a mainstay of our economy...

This paper argues that Australia is experiencing rapid development in aquaculture and has the potential to lead in producing future feed alternatives and systems management. Summary Forecasts indicate the global demand for fish production will continue to increase over the next decade, driven predominately by rising populations and urbanisation in developing states. Considered the fastest...

This is the second of four briefing papers the Parliamentary Research Service intends to publish on the proposed reform of the planning system in NSW. Appendix 1 presents an overview of the proposed system as set out in the Planning White Paper and the relevant Exposure Bills. In April 2013 the NSW Government entered a...

The report presents a global systematic review of scientific data on the prevalence of two forms of violence against women: violence by an intimate partner (intimate partner violence) and sexual violence by someone other than a partner (non-partner sexual violence). It shows global and regional estimates of the prevalence of these two forms of violence...