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Communications

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Awareness about tobacco causing head and neck cancers via mass media: a case-control study from India

This study assessed the awareness of people about the adverse effects of tobacco (smoking and chewing) consumption causing head and neck cancers via mass media channels like television, cinema, radio and newspapers or magazines, wall painting or billboards / hoardings, public transportation and packets of chewing tobacco, bidis or cigarettes.
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'Renewable gas' campaigns leave Victorian gas distribution networks and consumers at risk


The authors of this report argue that governments and regulators should act to protect consumers, by ensuring that gas distribution networks' campaigning activities are lawful under Australian consumer law, and that expenditure on ‘renewable gas’ activities is not approved where it is not in the long-term interests of energy consumers.
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Issues paper: digital inclusion, disability, and housing

Fiona Malcolm

The purpose of this paper is to communicate relevant findings from recent research projects that form a new research agenda to policy-makers, sector leaders, relevant stakeholders, and participant organisations. It focuses on intersecting issues related to digital inclusion, disability and housing, which emerged as priority areas requiring further investigation, understanding and intervention in pursuit of...
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Incels in Australia: the ideology, the threat, and a way forward


This report explores the phenomenon of ‘incels’—involuntary celibates—and the misogynistic ideology that underpins a subset of this global community of men that has become a thriving Internet subculture. It examines how online spaces are providing a platform for gender-based, violent extremism.
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Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey: August 2023


This survey report points to ongoing opportunities to enhance Australia’s privacy framework, and illustrates that there is strong support for Australian government legislation that protects personal information. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will use the findings of ACAPS 2023 to inform their ongoing input into the review of the Privacy Act, and to...