"You are not born being racist, are you?” Discussing racism with primary-aged children
Author/editor: Priest, N, Walton, J, White, F, Kowal, E, Fox, B. & Paradies, Y.
Year published: 2017
Ethnic-racial socialisation is broadly described as processes by which both minority and majority children and young people learn about and negotiate racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. This article extends the existing ethnic-racial socialisation literature in three significant ways: (1) it…
Adolescent illicit drug use and policy options in Australia: a multicriteria decision analysis
Author/editor: Manning, M & Wong, G.
Year published: 2017
The etiology of illicit substance involvement is a multidimensional problem shaped by factors across individual, social, and environmental domains. In this study, a multicriteria framework is employed to incorporate the input of specialists regarding risk and protective factors and the…
Attitudes to housing affordability
Author/editor: Sheppard, J, Gray, M & Phillips, B
Year published: 2017
The 24th ANUPoll - Attitudes to Housing Affordability: Pressures, Problems and Solutions - has found an overwhelming majority believe the great Australian dream of home ownership will be out of reach for future generations. With the government due to announce housing affordability measures in the…
Class, capital, and identity in Australian society
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Sheppard, J.
Year published: 2017
Despite a comparatively ‘flat’ social structure and lack of obvious class-based cleavages, Australian society is stratified by objective, multidimensional measures of social class. Using data from a July 2015 survey of a random sample of Australian citizens, latent class analysis identifies six…
Cyber terrorism: research report of the Australian National University Cybercrime Observatory for the Korean Institute of Criminology
Author/editor: Broadhurst, R, Woodford-Smith, H, Maxim, D, Sabol, B, Orlando, S, Chapman-Schmidt,B & Alazab, M.
Year published: 2017
This review of cyber-terrorism outlines the main trends and challenges presented by the convergence of the exceptional reach, speed and scale of the Internet and the political ambitions of violent extremists. Chapters on cyber weapons, critical infrastructure, attribution, Internet of Things,…
Distributional modelling of negative gearing and capital gains
Author/editor: Phillips, B.
Year published: 2017
In the 2012-13 tax year around 1.2 million persons were invested in negatively geared properties in Australia. Around 330,000 persons included capital gains in their taxable income where a 50 per cent discount was applied. Australian taxation law allows investors (including rental investors) to…