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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.
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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).