This is the first of two reports by Kelly Madden and Margie Law which draw on data from the Tasmanian Community Survey, which investigated the standard of living, employment experiences and wellbeing of the Tasmanian community. This report focuses on access to financial and other resources and services in Tasmania. The research found that despite...

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

Porter's Industrial Cluster Theory (ICT) is a theoretical framework that achieved prominence in Australian economic policy development. Despite its widespread adoption, however, Australia has remained significantly below the OECD average in terms of its industrial clusters' contributions to real wealth creation. In order to understand the positive role that (Australian) governments can play in the...

Ted Wilson examines the experiences of those using Anglicare's Private Rental Support Service over the six year period between the start of 1998 and the end of 2004. His report highlights the fact that the housing boom has strongly affected the housing market in the north and north-west of Tasmania over this period and that...

Margie Law looks at the experiences of people who are living on low incomes in Tasmania and who have a gambling problem. Her report looks at low income people not because they have a higher rate of problem gambling, but because they have very limited resources to cope with financial difficulties and are particularly vulnerable...