This document outlines the Victorian government’s response to the 'Yoorrook for justice' report, which was the culmination of a year-long inquiry into Victoria's child protection and criminal justice systems.

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework called 'policy momentum' to explain the cross-national timing of human rights protections for transgender people in Western democracies.

The Consumer Policy Research Centre has worked with data released 20 March 2024 (for the 2022-23 financial year period) to present some key findings that explore the incidence and reporting of scams in Australia, and what this has looked like over the last few years.

This report looks at young people who were under youth justice supervision in Australia during 2022–23 because of their involvement or alleged involvement in crime. It explores the key aspects of supervision, both in the community and in detention, as well as recent trends.

In this paper, the authors replicate a prediction model that was developed in New South Wales to predict high-harm offending among outlaw motorcycle gangs nationally and in other states. They find that, even with a limited pool of data from a national police information system, high-harm offending can be predicted with a relatively high degree...