The release of the Framework for National Action on Affordable Housing (the Framework) in 2005 has provided an opportunity to consider how evaluation could be built from the outset into a major future initiative in the housing field. In response, this report first provides an overview of ideas and developments in evaluation theory and methods...

This final report of an AHURI research project identifies three dimensions of social cohesion: social connectedness, inequality, and cultural environment. Home ownership is more positively associated with each of these dimensions than either public or private renting.

This chronology starts with the addition of the area that would eventually become the Northern Territory to the Colony of New South Wales in 1825 and concludes with the 2007 report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on statehood matters. It also includes some complementary coverage of relevant electoral...

This paper briefly describes the administrative framework supporting the Parliament of Australia, and also its current financial arrangements. A review of the funding arrangements which exist in other comparable legislatures suggests an avenue of reform for the Parliament’s administrative and budgetary arrangements to strengthen the independence of the Parliament.

ABSTRACT There is emerging evidence that after infertility and assisted conception women are at increased risk of early parenting difficulties. The aims of this study were to characterize postpartum psychological functioning of women conceiving through assisted reproductive technology (ART) and to identify factors that may be associated with early parenting difficulties defined as: postpartum psychological...