Briefing paper
Briefing paper
Re-orienting funding from volume to value in public dental services
This briefing paper focusses on funding reforms for public dental health services that will be required to achieve value-based health care in Australia.
Briefing paper
Press freedom in Australia: white paper
The AJF has released this white paper that provides seven recommendations for legislative change to strengthen press freedom in Australia. The recommendations include a framework underpinned by a Media Freedom Act that balances press freedom and national security interests, protecting journalists engaged in their work from unwarranted prosecution or civil liability.
Briefing paper
What’s a collection anyway?
This paper argues that there is still a need for developing cohesive strategies within individual libraries to ensure that they are investing in resources - whether they are owned, licensed, streamed, shared, or borrowed in a systematic manner, balancing user needs with their stewardship role.
Briefing paper
Delivering healthy lives and well-being for women and girls
This policy brief outlines some of the gender-specific dimensions of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) that universal health coverage (UHC) must address, and presents a number of recommendations to improve the health and wellbeing of girls and women.
Briefing paper
Entrenched disadvantage in Western Australia: health, economic and social impacts
100 Families WA is a collaborative research project aimed at understanding the lived experience of poverty, entrenched disadvantage and social exclusion. The first bulletin focuses on the health, economic and social impacts of hardship experienced by families in Perth, Western Australia.