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Accessing and sustaining private rental tenancies: critical life events, housing shocks and insurances
The private rental sector has grown significantly and is now home to more than 1.8 million Australian households.
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Assessing management costs and tenant outcomes in social housing: recommended methods and future directions
This study confirmed that existing official performance measures of Australia’s social housing services are inadequate to measure efficiency and effectiveness. Working closely with six larger community housing providers and two public housing providers, the research team developed and trialled a new performance framework. This involved collecting data for social housing expenditure, conducting workshops with managers...
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Making connections: housing, productivity and economic development
In the past, housing policy-makers have argued that housing is a social, rather than an economic, investment. However, problems with the housing market may be constraining national growth and imposing costs on the public purse (e.g. homelessness impacts on health budgets). Published research suggests a range of potential links between housing and economic growth. For...
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Countering violent extremism: developing an evidence-base for policy and practice
This volume reports on the range of papers presented at the Annual Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Research Conference 2014 from 7-8 December 2014 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Conference was organized and hosted by Hedayah (the International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism), Curtin University, People Against Violent Extremism (PaVE), and the...
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Student equity performance in Australian higher education: 2007 to 2014
This NCSEHE Briefing Note provides an update on domestic undergraduate student enrolment and equity outcomes from 2007 to 2014, following Koshy and Seymour (2014). It focuses on undergraduate outcomes for Table A providers given policy changes.