Australian Rental Cost Trends
Author/editor: Phillips, B
Year published: 2025
This paper considers rent cost trends in Australia over the last 40 years by comparing the growth in rents and incomes for Australian households. The paper combines income and housing survey results from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) with modelled estimates for the years beyond 2020…
Responding to the needs of women and girls involved with court services
Author/editor: Bartels, L, Gelb, K, Eales, S, Corcoran, L, Boxall, H and Cooms, V
Year published: 2025
POLIS: the ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University (ANU) was engaged by the Department of Justice (then the Department of Justice and Attorney-General) to conduct a literature review, based on specific recommendations made by the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce in…
Rights, Relationships and Respect Evaluation. Final Report 2024
Author/editor: Robertson, H, Rossner, M, and Gadow, F
Year published: 2025
The ANU Sexual Violence Prevention Strategy (2019-2026) envisions a violence-free campus, emphasising primary prevention of sexual violence. This includes addressing systemic power imbalances and social norms that drive violence. In response to a 2021 internal review identifying gaps in respectful…
Trends in Civic Engagement in Australia
Author/editor: Cameron, S
Year published: 2025
A longstanding debate concerns whether civic engagement is in decline in the advanced democracies and whether this forms part of a crisis of democracy. This paper situates Australia within this debate by providing a broad overview of the state of civic engagement in Australia. To do so, this paper…
Perceptions of democracy and other political attitudes in Australia: October 2024
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M
Year published: 2024
This paper examines political attitudes in Australia as captured by the first wave of the 2025 Election Monitoring Survey Series (2025EMSS), conducted in October 2024. Using data from a nationally representative sample of over 3,500 Australians, the study explores satisfaction with democracy, trust…
Tracking Public Narratives of Democratic Resilience at Scale: From experts and machines, to the transformer revolution
Author/editor: Angus, S
Year published: 2024
Democratic resilience is as much about the narratives of our nation we affirm, as the institutions thatenshrine our values and laws, a fact re-affirmed by scholarship across many branches of social science inrecent decades. For quantitative social scientists, analysing or tracking public discourse…
Measuring, monitoring and diagnosing the impact of mis /dis information to support future (non-legislative) policy development
Author/editor: Carson, A & Grömping, M
Year published: 2024
This discussion paper outlines the state of the information environment in Australia in comparison to other countries, focusing on the perceived threat of misinformation and disinformation on public information quality. Drawing on international literature, data, and recent Australian case studies—…