The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and RMIT University co-hosted the inaugural Homelessness Research Conference in Melbourne, 19-20 April 2012.

This report examines the development and delivery of government services in specified remote Indigenous communities. The report focuses on: delivery of the 12 national agreement outputs for remote delivery services progress with accounting for the identified gaps in key services and infrastructure determined from baseline mapping through local implementation plans community indicators which look at...

This paper explores the concept of community resilience and outlines some of the recent frameworks and tools that have been developed to understand and measure it.

SummaryThe Younger People with Disability in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) initiative is a 5-year program agreed on by the Council of Australian Governments. It aims to reduce the number of people with disability aged under 65 who live in residential aged care.In 2010–11, a total of 1,087 people received services funded by the YPIRAC initiative...

The Report on Government Services 2012 was released in January 2012. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has identified the performance of mainstream services in relation to Indigenous Australians as a particular focus of the Report, and an Indigenous Compendium collating relevant data from the main Report was released on 20 April 2012. In April...