Tasmania
Discussion paper
Review of privacy laws in Tasmania: issues paper
The Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) is examining the state’s legal protections around privacy, and seeks public feedback on possible reforms to Tasmanian privacy law. This paper aims to inform community discussion about how privacy can be best protected amid rapid technological advances and changing community attitudes.
Report
What makes inclusive communities? Meanings, tensions, change needed
The Planning Inclusive Communities (PIC) project stems from research on mobility, participation, and the diverse experience of everyday life in the planned and designed city centres, towns and neighbourhoods of Australia. This report presents the thoughts, experiences, and ideas of 97 participants on what makes communities inclusive, their current experiences of living in their communities...
Report
Take notice, believe us and act! Exploring the safety of children and young people in government run organisations
This report explores the views of 59 Tasmanian children and young people to understand their contemporary experiences of government-run and government-funded services and to use those findings to inform recommendations about how institutions and systems might better prevent and respond to harm.
Evaluation
Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Initiative 2016–2019 evaluation report
This evaluation reviewed the Australian Government's Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Initiative. It found the initiative was positively perceived, addressing a gap and providing useful support to young clients seeking to start a business, but there was low awareness of some components and opportunities for improvement. Participants continued to face multiple barriers to starting a business.
Journal article
Nurse home visiting to improve child and maternal outcomes: 5-year follow-up of an Australian randomised controlled trial
An evaluation of the benefits of an Australian Nurse home visiting (NHV) program in promoting children’s language and learning, general and mental health, maternal mental health and wellbeing, and parenting and family relationships at child ages 4 and 5 years through a Randomised Control Trial. It concludes that the program promoted longer-term family functioning and...