A Strategic Community Roadmap for an Australian FAIR Vocabulary Ecosystem
Author/editor: Wong, M., Atkins, N., Boyle, D., Dharmawardena, K., Hobern, D., McEachern, S. and Wyborn, L.
Year published: 2025
Vocabularies serve as essential anchor points for both humans and machines in effective and efficient data processing. Vocabularies include controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and metadata schemas, each of which contributes to an ecosystem that encompasses the people,…
High Balance Superannuation Holders: A Statistical Overview
Author/editor: Phillips B, Webster, R
Year published: 2025
This paper considers high balance superannuation holders in Australia and provides a statistical summary of their income and wealth position. There is a debate in Australia around the taxation of superannuation, in particular the government's plans to increase income taxation for persons with…
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…