Children with behavioural and learning difficulties (particularly literacy attainment) commonly have problems processing auditory information as measured by sentence length recall and digit span. Findings from the study of 11,366 children from school entry to Year 9 indicated that the association betweeen literacy and classroom behaviour was strong, according to Kathy Rowe, Jan Pollard and...

Rowena Johns summarises key events in the development of the jury system in New South Wales. She looks at the types of courts and cases that involves juries, and at current jury procedures, and provides an overview of current issues including the impact of prejudicial publicity on juries, the question of majority verdicts and the...

Child maltreatment is associated with a wide range of immediate and long-term negative outcomes. This resource sheet briefly outlines the potential psychological and physical problems associated with child maltreatment.

Australian governments engaged in a major reform program in the 1990s, culminating in the formation of the National Electricity Market (NEM) which commenced operation on 13 December 1998. Today, the NEM supplies electricity to 7.7 million Australian customers on an interconnected national grid that runs through Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria...

Antony Green discusses the political impact of the finalised New South Wales state electoral boundaries, released by the Electoral Districts Commission on 21 December 2004. With the number of seats held by each party remaining unchanged as a result of this redistribution, the Coalition still needs to gain 9 seats from Labor to deprive the...