This paper outlines the final case study in a research project which examines how international development non-government organisations conduct their work with Aboriginal organisations and communities in Australia. The author was keen to explore how international non-government organisations (NGOs) working with Indigenous communities and community organisations reflected the community development (or bottom–up) approaches which both...

This audit assessed the effectiveness of FaHCSIA‘s performance of its lead agency role in coordinating whole-of-government commitments to closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage.

This paper on the changing role of mayors, and how that role might be strengthened, seeks to fill one of several significant gaps in research and discussion of political governance in Australian local government. It reviews relevant literature and recent developments in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and concludes that if local government is...

At 30 June 2011, there were nearly 185,500 residential aged care places, an increase of more than 2,600 places compared with 30 June 2010. This report on residential aged care presents statistics from July 2010 to June 2011. Together with its companion report, Aged care packages in the community 2010-11: a statistical overview, it provides...

This research from life course and place-based criminology will be used to explore whether some communities generate chronic and costly crime offenders. There has recently been renewed interest in place-based approaches for targeting crime prevention, such as justice reinvestment. The Semi-Parametric Group-based Method was used to identify non-normative or chronic offenders in the 1990 Queensland...