This paper argues that whatever the rationales for the creation of the current system of tax concessions for superannuation, minimising the future cost of the age pension does not appear to be among them. Australian taxpayers contributed $30.2 billion to the private accounts of that portion of the population with superannuation 2011-12. By 2015-16 this...

The Australian Community Sector Survey (ACSS) is the only annual national survey collecting data about the non-government, non-profit community services and welfare sector. This sector is a major provider of the community services that most of us rely on at some point in our lives, but which are particularly important to people on low incomes...

The following reports presents some of the contextual trends that have contributed to the AIFS research directions for 2012–15 regarding Australian families. Australian families are in transition. Since the Second World War, Australia has developed increasingly close ties with Asia that have directly fuelled national prosperity, the diversity of our population and the cultural richness...

The report gathers recent research and inquiry recommendations, together with commentary from prominent legal figures to paint a concerning picture of Australia's justice system and what needs to happen to change it. In 2009, then Federal Attorney General Robert McClelland said that the “critical test” for the justice system is whether it is “fair, simple...

This short report by the Footscray Community Legal Centre (FCLC) details the development of a kit of community education materials to introduce refugees and new migrants to their rights as communications consumers in Australia.