Foreword The link between the use of alcohol, other drugs and crime continues to be a concern in communities throughout Australia. In regional Western Australia, little is known about the patterns of substance use and crime. In an attempt to better understand a regional offending population and their alcohol and drug use, the Australian Institute...

The Department of Culture and the Arts has released this strategic plan, to articulate the role, vision, values and key priorities of the organisation.

Our Children Can’t Wait, provides an overview of progress made in the provision of much-needed mental health programs in Western Australia following the Commissioner’s 2011 Inquiry into the mental health and wellbeing of WA children and young people, and makes twelve new recommendations.

This report extends our previous Bankwest Foundation research and investigates the experiences of on-the-ground community organisations, government and philanthropic funders of community service organisations, and community sector peak bodies with outcomes measurement in Western Australia.

Foreword The number of prisoners in Australian prisons has been increasing over the past decade. In Western Australia the number of female offenders has increased by 40 percent over the past five years. One contributing factor to this increase may be the re incarceration of parolees who have violated parole. This research used the publicly...