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Social issues

Policy report

Australia’s youth policy framework


This document acknowledges the challenges faced by young people in Australia, particularly from the impacts of COVID-19. It outlines the federal government’s significant support and ongoing commitment to ensuring that young Australians are properly supported.
Report

Global report on ageism


This report outlines a framework for action to reduce ageism including specific recommendations for different actors. It brings together the best available evidence on the nature and magnitude of ageism, its determinants and its impact. The report also outlines what strategies work to prevent and counter ageism, identifies gaps and proposes future lines of research...
Report

Free2Be... Yet?: The second national study of Australian high school students who identify as gender and sexuality diverse


This report details the findings from a second nationwide survey of gender and sexuality diverse Australian secondary school students. Where possible, the research generates comparisons across the two studies to investigate shifting trends.
Fact sheet

Intellectual disability: person-centred care


This fact sheet provides information to support clinicians to provide better health care for people with intellectual disability. It focuses on person-centred care strategies.
Report

Infrastructure for social connection: researching the existing assets for creating social connectedness and identifying interventions


Social connection is a critical outcome of community-based planning and activity given its ability to positively affect health and wellbeing at the individual and community level. This report informs a deeper understanding of key foundations, assets and optimal conditions for social connection within communities from a strengths-based perspective.
Report

Migrant and refugee women in Australia: the safety and security study


This is the first national study that captures the diversity of migrant and refugee women, including residency/visa status. It is also the first national study to ask specific questions about domestic violence and controlling behaviours related to the visa and migration status of women.
Report

Improving family violence legal and support services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women


This report identifies priorities for reducing and preventing violence against, and improving services for, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the Victorian and New South Wales towns of Mildura and Albury–Wodonga. It examines the capabilities of frontline family violence services, both Aboriginal-controlled and non-Indigenous, with regard to improving the safety of women and...
Report

Police responses to people with disability


This project targets critical knowledge and practice gaps to build the Commission’s knowledge and evidence base about police processes, interactions and responses to people with disability, and how they can be improved.
Report

Health justice partnership as a response to domestic and family violence


This paper describes health justice partnership as an integrated response to domestic and family violence - what partnerships currently look like, where they are found, who they support, and what they offer partner agencies, practitioners and their clients.
Briefing paper

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delivery of services to CALD communities in Australia


This policy briefing paper is presented as part of an Australian Research Linkage Project on mapping social services in multicultural communities, where one of its key objectives is to understand the experiences of service delivery and provision modes to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.