The triangular dynamic among the United States, India and China will be critical to Asia's strategic future.

The NSW imprisonment rate is about twice that of Victoria: this bulletin examines the influence of sentencing practice and other factors on the difference between NSW and Victoria in their imprisonment rates. The NSW imprisonment rate is about twice that of Victoria (204 per 100,000 population vs. 104 per 100,000 population) (Australian Bureau of Statistics...

This document is an analysis of how policy has interacted with vocational education and training (VET) in Australia, with a particular focus on the period since the 1980s. It is accompanied by a timeline which sets out key policy documents that shaped the development of the VET system and by a list of Australian Prime...

In the context of the Federal Government's commitment to hold a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, this research brief considers some of the potential options for Indigenous-related reform. The Indigenous Law Centre is conducting a research project looking at reform of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The...

This paper examines whether the reduction in the percentage of cases where bail is dispensed with (unconditional release) is due to a change in the profile of cases coming before the criminal courts or a general increase in the threshold for dispensing with bail. A series of statistical (logistic regression) models of the likelihood of...