This paper examines the extent to which Indigenous Australians have shared in the large expansion of the Australian workforce that is revealed by a comparison of 2001 and 2006 census results.

This project aims to assess the concept of 'housing submarket' in relation to its potential policy relevance for the public housing sector.In broad terms, the project aims to assess the concept of 'housing submarket' in relation to its potential policy relevance for the public housing sector. Internationally, the concept of submarkets has been much used...

This final report aims to quantify the nature and extent of changes in the decade 1991-2001 within nonmetropolitan housing markets in Australia and, integral to achieving this first goal, to construct the first national non-metropolitan housing market database to hold empirical information on population, housing and labour markets for the census years 1991, 1996 and...

Getting the long-term jobless into mainstream employment is a major challenge for Australian governments, especially in areas of concentrated disadvantage. The Brotherhood’s approach, also used effectively overseas, is to use an 'intermediate labour market' (ILM) as a bridge between long-term unemployment and the mainstream labour market. This research report presents initial findings about the effectiveness...

These reports present the results of an ongoing study that monitors ecstasy and related drug markets in every state and territory of Australia. Trends in the demographic characteristics and patterns of drug use among regular ecstasy users, their criminal behaviour, and harms perceived to be related to their ecstasy use are presented, along with the...