The Violence Risk Scale (VRS) is a tool designed to assess and predict risk of future offending, inform decisions around therapeutic intervention and measure changes in violence risk as a result of treatment. This study investigated the discriminative and predictive validity of the VRS for Australian Aboriginal and non-Indigenous males convicted of violent offending in...

The Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Bill 2025 seeks to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 to ensure that pre-existing penalty and overtime rates in modern awards are not reduced. This paper provides an overview of penalty and overtime rates in Australia, presents key issues and provisions, and summarises the position of...

The report is the culmination of a 12-month Royal Commission involving extensive engagement with South Australians impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence. It contains 136 recommendations which lay out a roadmap for the state in which domestic, family and sexual violence is no longer tolerated and no longer possible.

This report describes cybercrime victimisation, help-seeking and harms among Australian computer users. The report found that rates of victimisation remain high, formal help-seeking remains low, and a large proportion of victims are negatively impacted by cybercrime. Certain sections of the community were found to be more likely than others to fall victim to cybercrime.

This report is part of the Ombudsman's ongoing investigation into instances where the Department of Home Affairs detained people it suspected to be unlawful non-citizens, but later identified they were not unlawful and released them from detention. Since monitoring began 2005, the same types of errors are causing people to be wrongfully detained.