In 2005 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) produced a report, Responding to sexual assault: The challenge of change (DPP & AFP 2005), which made 105 recommendations for reforming the way sexual offence cases are handled by the ACT’s criminal justice system...

Evidence of the prevalence of a history of past and/or current family violence among separated parents, and the presence of ongoing safety concerns for themselves and their children as a result of ongoing contact with the other parent, has created an impetus for the family law system to find more effective ways of dealing with...

The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Intervention (the Intervention) of 2007 was a bold experiment by the Howard Government. The Intervention was developed quickly without comprehensive policy development based on evidence or consultation. During its five-year statutory life (ending August 2012), the absence of coherent policy logic has seen the Intervention fundamentally reframed by the...

This report presents the results of an evaluation of consumer-directed community aged care. Consumer-Directed Care (CDC) is central to the aim of rendering community aged care more flexible and responsive. In Australia, it builds on experiences of consumer-directed community-based disability care and is intended to offer greater decisional authority to care recipients over the services...

A report on the social venture 'Family by Family' developed by the Australian Centre for Social Innovation as an attempt to address the number of families requiring crisis services in South Australia. The program links 'seeking families' - families who want something in their lives to be different - with 'sharing families' - families who...