This report has been produced by the University of Melbourne for the Australian Communities Foundation Green Cities Innovation Fund to document an international review on high-rise apartment building thermal performance and comfort in heat wave conditions. This identified four international standards that represent best practice in protecting the health of apartment residents in heatwave conditions...

The chapters in this volume offer provocative ideas for transforming Australian tertiary education. Each is grounded in current issues or trends but goes beyond present thinking to propose ways in which policy and practice might make major advances. The Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education (MCSHE) last produced a volume of this kind...

Charities in Australia can be political. They can advocate and lobby to further their charitable purposes. But they can't be party-political.

This paper is a collection of contributions from leading academics and social justice campaigners providing different perspectives on the ideas of shorter working hours and Universal Basic Income.

This research report presents findings from Generation X and Generation Y from the Life Patterns project.