The interviews and online survey canvassed young people’s views on a broad range of topics. These included knowledge of standard drinks and the national alcohol guidelines, the main influences on their decisions about drinking alcohol, their concerns about harms that arise from alcohol consumption and their views and ideas on strategies to reduce these harms...

The Commissioner of Children and Young People has released a new online resource that provides a socio-demographic profile of Western Australia’s 500,000 children and young people. It describes the State’s population of under 18 year-olds through current data on population distribution, diversity and family characteristics, and highlights key information that can be used by policy...

This framework provides guidance for those involved in implementing Regional Centres Development Plans (SuperTowns). It details: " the background and rationale to SuperTowns policy " linkages to the statutory land use planning, regional development framework and approval processes " a local and community focus " the wider sub-regional, regional and cross-regional contexts " governance arrangements...

This report considers vocational education, post release support and, significantly, innovative strategies to better address the issue of Aboriginal recidivism. This report is the second and final report of the Inquiry ‘Making our Prisons Work’. The first report focussed on prison employment and industries. This report found that there are significant successes achieved by Department...

The Gascoyne Regional Development Plan is designed to provide a strategic direction for the Gascoyne region over the next ten years to 2020.