Drawing on research findings from empirical survey research with sixty social planning practitioners in Australia, the paper briefly explores the diversity and shifting landscape of social planning practice over the past century before drawing on the survey findings to develop a picture of current social planning practice within Australia and the challenges and opportunities that...

This important research is the first to examine the geographic spread, age profile and social, health and economic wellbeing of carers in regional and remote Australia.

Using the latest available data published by the Australian Taxation Office for the 2006–07 income year, this background note looks at levels of philanthropy, or more specifically, tax deductible giving in Australia. The note focuses in particular on how levels of giving, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of taxable income, vary between...

The overarching objective of the evaluation was to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of: the Department's management of PHCF program as funded to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services (ATSIHSs); program service delivery by ATSIHSs in improving access to effective primary health care services for Indigenous Australians; and the Department's processes for assessing how...

The objectives of the performance audit were to assess: the effectiveness and efficiency of the Department of Employment, Education and Workplace Relation's management and administration of the IPSU initiative the effectiveness and efficiency of IPSUs' management of funding, including service delivery and performance management arrangements, and the processes in place to assess eligible services' support...