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Deakin University

Report

Building audiences: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts


This report examines the barriers to and the strategies for increasing audiences in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts sector. The research investigates the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of current and potential audiences.
Report

Landscapes of violence: women surviving family violence in regional and rural Victoria


In this research, family violence survivors have identified issues and barriers they have encountered, and have provided suggestions in regards to how both the criminal justice system and the broader Victorian community might assist survivors and help prevent family violence.
Working paper

The size, cost and asset allocation of Australian self-managed superannuation funds


Using proprietary Australian Tax Office (ATO) data, we document the size, asset allocation and expenses for a sample of 209,420 Australian self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) for the three years to June 2010. Two recent Government reviews have highlighted a lack of basic knowledge of the costs associated with running an SMSF. Our study aims to...
Report

Gen Green 4 Australia: a national study of demand for and supply of skills for sustainability


In this research, skills for sustainability are broadly conceived as including skills for social, economic and environmental sustainability – a triple bottom-line approach. Since 2009 Australian governments have been implementing an agreement that embeds skills for sustainability into vocational education and training, despite scant information about the actual levels of demand for, and supply of...
Report

Applying the theory of resource curse to disadvantaged migrant communities and criminal offending


This paper argues that the heroin trade had an effect analogous to ‘resource curse’, and has been a major source of continuing disadvantage and social harm to the Vietnamese Australian community.