The Department engaged VicHealth to review respectful relationships education in Victorian secondary schools resulting in the Respectful Relationships Education: Violence prevention and respectful relationships education in Victorian secondary schools report. The report provides guidance on good practice criteria required to achieve violence prevention and respectful relationships education in schools, as well as a basis for...

This report examines how violence against women specifically affects children and young people. It looks at the nature of violence they experience in their homes and their own relationships.

Using a large database of self-completion interviews with 24,718 respondents aged 14 and over, compiled by Roy Morgan Research, Michael Flood and Clive Hamilton identify the extent of homophobia in Australia, according to factors including location, age, gender and educational attainment. In this study homophobia is identified as a belief that homosexuality is immoral.

Over nine million Australians travel to work each week, commuting by car, bus, train, tram, bicycle, ferry or foot. These days, more than ever before, employees are commuting for longer, in traffic that is more congested, to reach workplaces that are further away. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey...

Using national survey data, Michael Flood outlines patterns of loneliness, support and friendship and assesses who is most at risk of emotional and social isolation and who is socially supported and connected. The paper focuses on young adults aged 25 to 44, a demographic that has been neglected in existing studies of loneliness despite the...