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'The answers were there before the white man come in'


This First Nations-led and governed research report voices the experiences and recommendations of First Nations communities and service providers across Australia on family and community violence.
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The experience of Asian-Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic: discrimination and wellbeing


The aim of this paper is to document the changes in outcomes for Asian-Australians from January 2020 to October 2020, comparing the change in outcomes to the rest of the Australian population. In addition, the authors compare how attitudes of the total Australian population towards Asian-Australians compare to attitudes more generally.
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Public attitudes on vaccine distribution


The aim of this paper is to summarise the results from a survey experiment on a probability-based, representative sample of the Australian population during mid-August 2020, that tested explicitly the relative weight that Australians put on different characteristics of individuals, in terms of who should receive a vaccine ahead of others.
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Measuring the economic impact of early bushfire detection


The fires that occurred over the 2019/20 Australian summer were unprecedented in scale and had a devastating impact on large parts of the country. This paper estimates the economic costs of bushfires between 2020 and 2049, and the potential reduction in these costs from investments in early fire detection systems.
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COVID-19 JobKeeper and JobSeeker impacts on poverty and housing stress under current and alternative economic and policy scenarios


The modelling in this paper highlights that the pre-COVID-19 social security system would not have been able to adequately respond to the huge negative economic shock generated by COVID and associated job loss. Poverty rates and housing stress are lower than they otherwise would have been in the absence of policy change. However, there are...

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