This paper describes residents’ perceptions of 'social mix', utilising three case studies of social housing estates based in South Australia that have undergone substantial changes to social mix to reduce concentrations of public housing tenants and attract private home owners into the areas.

The issue of custodial remand in Australia remains acute. More than a fifth of Australian prisoners are unsentenced ('remandees') at any one time. Depending on the jurisdiction, remandee numbers have increased by between 50% and 270% since 1995. However, Australian States and Territories remand people in custody at significantly differing rates. This study reports qualitative...

This report shows that although each state and territory rental support program has similar aims, their operation varies considerably.

Ensuring that distribution capacity is available to meet South Australia’s few days of extreme peak electricity demand each year, plus the rate at which that peak demand is continuing to grow, leads to a necessity for on-going and increased investment in the State’s distribution network. This expenditure is the critical driver of ETSA Utilities’ costs...

Proportional representation was first used in 1840 for the Municipal Corporation of Adelaide election (the first municipality established in Australia). South Australia was the first colony to give women the vote in local government elections, in 1861. The first woman elected to local government in Australia was Susan Grace Berry, elected to Brighton Council in...