This paper acknowledges the sense of disciplinary identity surrounding various approaches to the study of national security issues, which is currently so fluid, so heavily contested and so highly politicized that little of genuine substance can be said regarding where disciplinary boundaries ultimately begin and end between such fields as ‘International Relations’, ‘International Security Studies’...

Victoria in Future 2012 (or VIF 2012) sets out projections of population and households in and across Victoria. The Spatial Analysis and Research Branch of the Department of Planning and Community Development (DPCD) developed these projections. Previously, DPCD published projections after each national Census, based on that Census year (e.g. VIF 2008 used 2006 as...

The community sector is a vital contributor to Victoria’s economic and social wellbeing. Through a combination of government and private sector funding, volunteer work, and fundraising and philanthropic support, the sector provides a vast and essential network of frontline services to our community’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged members. The diverse range of services include disability...

As part of a three-year program of research, the authors are investigating how the training system might be more effective in providing continuing education and training across workers' lives, since the tertiary education and training sector is currently geared to entry-level training; that is, getting young people ready to enter the labour market. This working...

In this submission, ANTaR outlines key expenditure priorities for the 2012-13 Federal Budget. These recommendations are designed to promote community and economic development, advance human rights and address the disadvantage experienced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. In the 2011-12 Budget, the Federal Government invested an additional $500 million / 5 years in...