Housing Cost Trends and Projections: Research Note
Author/editor: Phillips, B
Year published: 2023
Housing costs are for many households a very significant share of their regular expenditure. Those with a mortgage pay both interest and usually slowly pay off the principal of their house value. Those who rent pay a regular amount to a landlord. Interest rates have increased significantly over the…
Mapping Australian Higher Education 2023
Author/editor: Norton, A
Year published: 2023
Mapping Australian higher education 2023 provides an overview of Australian higher education policy and trends. It is the sixth edition of a report originally published by the Grattan Institute. Chapter 1 explains how higher education is defined in Australia, the different types of higher…
OECD Estimates of relative affordability of childcare
Author/editor: Bray R. J
Year published: 2023
This note considers OECD estimates of the relative cost of childcare for families in the workforce, with a particular focus on issues relating the estimation of these…
Ongoing trends in volunteering in Australian
Author/editor: Biddle N & Gray, M
Year published: 2023
This paper provides an analysis of how formal volunteering in Australia was impacted by the pandemic, the characteristics of those who were volunteering in April 2023 as the country continued to recover from the pandemic, the factors associated with the number of hours spent volunteering, and the…
Process evaluation of the Justice Housing Program
Author/editor: Taylor, H, Bartels, L, Rehill, P, Wong, G & Liu, E
Year published: 2023
This report presents the findings from a process evaluation of the Justice Housing Program (JHP). The JHP is a collaboration between the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACS), especially ACT Corrective Services (ACTCS), the Community Services…
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…