The Community Development Employment Projects scheme provides funds to help Indigenous communities in rural and remote Australia provide employment, skills development, and various essential and desirable municipal services. However, Josie Misko argues there is room to improve the range and quality of employment and community development activities available, and to increase the number of participants...

Birth anomalies remain a significant public health problem in Australia. Despite this, we do not have quality national data on birth anomalies in Australia. In response to the AIHW's continuing commitment to birth anomalies as a core data collection, a review was conducted over the last year which was aimed at assessing the utility and...

In this report, existing residential development case studies are sued to develop a methodology for assessing the sustainability (economic, social and environmental) of different types of housing and urban development.

This report is intended to help Australians address the question, ‘Has life in our country got better, especially during the past decade?’

Significant work is being undertaken to develop the capacity of Indigenous communities to govern their own services and adult literacy is clearly seen as a major factor in the participation of Indigenous people in community development and the capacity building processes. Yet little research on adult literacy practices and competence in remote Indigenous communities has...