By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone. Summary Former Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) head Bill McLennan renewed the debate over privacy, data linkage and the census when he recently spoke of the major...

The reporting of the Panama Papers – which has been based on a massive global analysis of documents leaked from law firm, Mossack Fonseca, outlining how the world’s elite use tax havens, is a remarkable feat of collaboration which builds on several trends in investigative journalism.

There is no straightforward answer, but research shows there are some key things to consider when choosing a school which might help determine where to send your child. Parents often face conflicting advice when deciding whether to send their child to a single-sex or coeducational school. Despite the lack of evidence, there remains a strong...

Martin Moore, Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, asks readers to imagine if on June 23 this year British citizens looking at google.co.uk found the words '#VoteIn' towards the bottom of the search page. Moore claims that most of us still think of Google – and the services of other tech giants such as...

As the ABC’s managing director Mark Scott approaches the end of his decade-long tenure, Media Watch this week provided a platform for him to highlight his achievements and fire off a couple of parting shots. It’s not ideal to see the ABC CEO using an ABC program to defend the ABC, but presenter Paul Barry...