This paper defines drought and reviews the current situation in NSW, including the projected impact of climate change on the frequency and severity of drought. Introduction: On 30 October 2013, the NSW Government announced $30.4 million in assistance measures for North West NSW primary producers. The package included longer-term preparedness measures and support for dealing...

This report covers trends in crime across 154 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in New South Wales over the 24 months to September 2013. If finds that all major categories of crime in NSW except one either fell or remained stable over the 24 months. The exception involved fraud offences, which increased by 20.7 per cent...

Almost six million people live within 50 kilometres of the NSW coastline. They and the rest of the NSW community plus the millions of domestic and international visitors enjoy the significant natural assets of the Marine Estate and generate billions of dollars each year for NSW and the Australian community. There are many varied commercial...

Aim: To investigate the extent to which youths in custody 1) rate specific life goals as important and likely to eventuate; 2) have strategies to achieve their goals; and 3) can anticipate barriers to achieving their goals. Method: A total of 107 detainees drawn from NSW Juvenile Justice centres were interviewed about their life goals...

Aim: To develop a method for forecasting the NSW remand and sentenced prisoner populations. Method: Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models with other time series as input variables were employed to estimate and forecast changes in the remand and sentenced prisoner populations. Models were tested by estimating model parameters over the period January 1998 –...