Briefing paper
Briefing paper
Exploring cyber security policy options in Australia
An interdisciplinary exercise generated three overarching policy recommendations to improve cyber security in Australia: create and enforce technology security standards, craft international agreements to address cyber security challenges, and improve risk awareness to keep users safe online.
Briefing paper
Mobile Child Protection Unit: early analysis of a new approach to child protection
This brief presents the findings of an analysis of the performance of the Western NSW Mobile Child Protection Unit (MCPU) in its first year of establishment. The MCPU was created to address the need for more reliable and consistent child protection responses in remote parts of NSW. The analysis suggests that the Mobile Child Protection...
Briefing paper
Federating security
The ‘Canberra knows best’ approach does not work across the full range of national security issues.
Briefing paper
Children and young people in out-of-home care in NSW: a summary of their views and experiences
This snapshot presents a summary of the results of two state-wide surveys conducted by the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) in 2015 – the [NSW] National Out-of-Home Care Survey and the NSW Residential Care Survey.
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GFC+10: a survey of public attitudes to the federal government’s handling of the global financial crisis, ten years on
Polling conducted by The Australia Institute asked Australians about the federal government’s handling of the global financial crisis (GFC).