The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) provides a weekly child health clinic in the remote Indigenous community of Kowanyama, on Cape York Peninsula. The RFDS runs a playgroup as part of the program. This paper describes the establishment of the playgroup program, its goals, the challenges faced, the strategies used to tackle them and the...

Unless ways can be found to prevent reoffending by released prisoners, they will continue to be highly likely to return to prison at a high cost to the community. This study examined pre-release expectations and post-release experiences of prisoners in Queensland to help identify the factors likely to lead to reincarceration. Of particular note were...

Continuing high population growth in Queensland and slower than average population growth in New South Wales means that this redistribution will increase the number of electoral divisions in Queensland to 29 and decrease the number in NSW to 49. Stephen Barber describes the proposed redistributions and discusses their possible electoral impact.

Toowoomba’s water vote shows the potential risk in sending every issue to the people, write Peter Mares and Brian Costar.

This paper is important for three reasons. The first is that it evaluates the impact of a significant change in the strategic management of police focused on driving down recorded crime rates. The second is that it highlights the continued professionalisation of policing in the willingness of Queensland Police Service (QPS) to contribute to the...