This report identifies priorities for reducing and preventing violence against, and improving services for, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the Victorian and New South Wales towns of Mildura and Albury–Wodonga. It examines the capabilities of frontline family violence services, both Aboriginal-controlled and non-Indigenous, with regard to improving the safety of women and...

This report focuses on the Australian context against the global backdrop of growing concerns over geoprivacy and the rapid and continuing growth of location intelligence and location marketing industries fed by locative apps and services.

Every generation of regional Victorians has had to adapt to change. From the expansion of regional cities during the post-war boom, to the increased exposure of manufacturing and agriculture industries to global competition, each generation has faced and dealt with significant economic, social and environmental shifts. Each time, government has had to renew its approach...

This paper examines the different attributes of telecommunications numbers and how the information they convey is currently used by communications users, service providers and other organisations. In the past, one of the most important attributes of numbers has been the location of a customer who is using the number. Some uses of this location information...

While work in planning around violence prevention has traditionally focused on crime prevention through environmental design, this research suggests a broadened role for spatial planning, related to social service provision, evidence-based ‘whole of government’ coordinated action, and engendering changes in attitudes towards public and private space.