Public attitudes towards coercive control: Evidence from a nationally representative population survey
Author/editor: Strange, C, Bartels, L, Boxall, H, Fitz-Gibbon, K & Biddle, N
Year published: 2023
Coercive control as a factor associated with intimate partner homicide has prompted significant efforts in Australia to improve understanding of the behaviour, to prevent it, and to respond to it. The criminalisation of coercive control has occurred at the state level, and several jurisdictions…
Public support for Randomised Controlled Trials and nudge interventions in Australian Social Policy
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M, Hiscox, M
Year published: 2023
An emerging view in public policy is that there should be greater use of evaluations and randomised controlled trials (also known as RCTs). While RCTs have been shown to provide reliable estimates of causal impacts, there is little evidence on support for such trials amongst the general population…
Taking stock: Wellbeing and political attitudes in Australia at the start of the post-COVID era, January 2023
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2023
The aim of this paper is to use data collected during January 2023 and Australia’s recent history to take stock of Australia’s wellbeing, as well as its attitudes towards key political and social institutions as Australia enters a post-COVID world. The data was collected by the ANU Centre for…
Views of Australians towards science and AI
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Year published: 2023
This paper uses data collected as part of the ANUpoll series of surveys, collected in April 2023 with information on almost four-and-a-half thousand Australian adults. The paper describes Australians’ interests in science; their knowledge about science; support for and concerns about science; and…
A Fairer Tax and Welfare System for Australia
Author/editor: Phillips, B & Webster, R.
Year published: 2022
This research paper was commissioned by the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia Inc. as an initiative to help address the growing gap between ‘the haves’ and ‘the have nots’ in Australia. The paper proposes three simple policy proposals designed to improve the financial…
A tale of three Januarys. Political and policy attitudes during the bushfire and pandemic periods
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M & Sollis, K
Year published: 2022
In this paper we present data from a set of representative surveys of the Australian population (the ANUpoll series of surveys) to examine the changes in political and policy attitudes over three Januarys – January 2020 at the height of the Black Summer bushfire crisis, January 2021 as Australia…
ANU Regional Living Cost Index
Author/editor: Phillips, B & Joseph, C
Year published: 2022
The ANU Regional Living Cost Index (LCI) calculates an index for living cost changes for each region of Australia (SA3) belonging to capital cities and major cities surrounding those capitals. We estimate an LCI for just over 200 SA3 regions in Australia on a quarterly basis between December 2009…