
Cost of Living Budget Package: Distributional Modelling
Author/editor: Phillips, B
Year published: 2022
The 2022 Federal Budget included several measures designed to provide ‘cost of living’ relief for Australian households. These measures include a $420 ‘cost of living offset’ for low and middle income earners, and a $250 cost of living payment for welfare recipients and concession card holders, and…

Criminal justice mobile applications: A literature and scoping review
Author/editor: Taylor, H, Bartels, L, van Rooy, D
Year published: 2022
The increasing availability and use of applications for mobile phones (apps) has allowed for innovative solutions to address a range of issues, most prominently in the area of health behaviour change. Such advances in technology have also created opportunities within the justice context and the…

Data trust and data privacy: A brake on the data and digital dividend?
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M, McEachern S
Year published: 2022
Data is increasingly available at scale and many of the fastest growing companies are built on data and data analytics. Governments are also increasingly using data for service delivery and to a lesser extent policy development and evaluation. Regulating and managing the increasing availability and…
Economic and other wellbeing in Australia – October 2022
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M
Year published: 2022
The October 2022/23 Budget signals a shift to including a range of non-economic measures of progress and quality of life. During the COVID-19 period and into late 2022, there has been large changes in many wellbeing measures. The ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) has been…
Evaluation of the 2018 changes to the Australian child care system
Author/editor: Bray, R & Gray M
Year published: 2022
In 2018 the Australian Government introduced a new funding model for the support of child care provision in Australia. These changes were promoted as being ‘once in a generation’ reforms. Key objectives were to improve affordability and increase workforce participation. A consortium of researchers…

Explaining the 2022 Australian Federal Election Result
Author/editor: Biddle, N & McAllister, I
Year published: 2022
In this paper we analyse the factors associated with voting behaviour in May 2022, how that relates to voting intentions at the start of the campaign as well as voting behaviour in the 2019 election, and a summary of some other key findings from the 2022 ANUpoll/Comparative Study of Electoral…

Household Financial Stress and Financial Wellbeing in Australia Report for UnitingCare Australia
Author/editor: Phillips, B
Year published: 2022