Justice
Report
Financial abuse: the weaponisation of child support in Australia
This report draws on post-separation lived experience to demonstrate the ways that the Australian Child Support Scheme can be used and abused to jeopardise the financial safety of recipient parents and their children.
Report
Advancing child sexual abuse investigations using biometrics and social network analysis
This paper demonstrates how biometric features can be extracted from people in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and examines using social network analysis to reveal important patterns across seized media files.
Discussion paper
Nothing to see here: Australia’s broken freedom of information system
The author of this paper argues that Australia’s freedom of information (FOI) system is dysfunctional and under-resourced, partly because governments prioritise protecting themselves from embarrassment over disclosing to the public the information to which it is lawfully entitled.
Discussion paper
Review of privacy laws in Tasmania: issues paper
The Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) is examining the state’s legal protections around privacy, and seeks public feedback on possible reforms to Tasmanian privacy law. This paper aims to inform community discussion about how privacy can be best protected amid rapid technological advances and changing community attitudes.
Report
Crime by outlaw motorcycle gang members during club conflicts
This study examines the trends in and spatial distribution of recorded offending by Australian outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) affiliates at the onset of a territorial conflict between two clubs in the state of New South Wales.