In this paper Walter Lalich identifies a wide array of religious and secular facilities in Sydney that have been developed by ethnic communities as a consequence of post-1945 demographic and cultural changes. During this period many thousands of non-English speaking immigrants voluntarily engaged in the development of a diverse range of facilities to satisfy various...

2002 was the first year of the second phase of data collection in the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia project, which has been running since 1999. There are now seven sites participating in the program which interviews detainees in police custody about their drug use: Adelaide city and Elizabeth in South Australia; Bankstown and Parramatta...

For the AIC's Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program, 2001 was the final year of data collection in a three-year pilot program. Funding was provided under the Commonwealth's National Illicit Drug Strategy in July 1998 to establish the program, which has monitored illicit drug use among detainees in four sites - Bankstown and Parramatta...

The purpose of this report is to provide illicit drug use information on those people who are detained and brought to a police station. Data are obtained by means of interviews and urine samples from detainees at four sites: Southport Watchhouse (Qld), East Perth Lockup, Bankstown Police Station (NSW) and Parramatta Police Station (NSW). Urine...

The purpose of Drug Use Monitoring in Australia is to enhance understanding of the supply and demand for illicit drugs among detainees at the local level while providing comparable data across sites to enable comparative data, and the aggregate of data, to a national level. Illicit drug use information is provided on those people who...