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RMIT University

Working paper

The housing security consequences of underemployment


This Positioning Paper introduces a research project that aims to provide an Australia-wide analysis of the consequences of underemployment for housing security. It explores the connection between an increasingly important but problematic feature of contemporary labour markets (underemployment) and a crucial dimension of housing research and policy (housing security).
Report

RMIT University climate risk assessment: final report


This report details the process and findings from the first climate risk assessment carried out for RMIT University. Whist the primary focus is on the Melbourne City campus, the research activity also draws on interviews and documentation from the RMIT International campus in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC ), Vietnam.
Report

Southern Grampians - a good place to grow old


This report is an account of the Southern Grampians Positive Ageing research project and community activities held at RMIT University in Hamilton in 2011 and 2012. RMIT University’s Regional and Rural Research group is located at Hamilton and hosts the Potter Rural Community Research Network (PRCRN). The PRCRN is concerned with the increasing complexity of...
Report

Transport policy at the crossroads: travel to work in Australian capital cities 1976-2011


This report analyses the way residents of Australia’s seven capital cities (the six state capitals plus Canberra) have travelled to work over the last 35 years. It uses data from the census, which has included a question on the mode of transport used to travel to work since 1976.
Literature review

The "Joint Facilities" revisited: Desmond Ball, democratic debate on security, and the human interest


Richard Tanter examines Ball’s writings on these facilities, setting them in the wider context of Ball’s work on nuclear targeting, the transnational UKUSA intelligence and security community, and the possibilities and limits of self reliance in Australian defence. Reviewing developments in US-Australian “joint facilities” in Australia in the past decade, the paper examines the asymmetrical...