Literature Review on Yarning Circles in a Criminal Justice Context
Author/editor: Taylor, H, Bartels, L, Crowe, M, Marshall, V
Year published: 2022
The ACT Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACS) has developed and is implementing the Yarning Circles for Justice (YCJ) program, which operates a post-prison program, as well an in-prison yarning circle program. As set out in the ACT Government’s information paper about yarning circles and…

Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 period in Australia
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M & Rehill, P
Year published: 2022
In April 2020, the Social Research Centre on behalf of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods collected the first wave of data as part of the centre’s COVID-19 Impact Monitoring Series. Since that first wave of data collection, surveys have been undertaken a further 10 times, with the most…

Ongoing disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Australia using survey data – August 2022
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Year published: 2022
On the 8th of August 2022, data collection began for the 12th wave the COVID-19 Impact Monitoring series, with a total of 3,510 responses collected between the 8th and 22nd of August. The aim of this paper is to try to understand some of the reasons why booster uptake in Australia may have stalled…

Partner Violence and the Financial Well-Being of Women: HILDA Research Results
Author/editor: Chapman, B & Taylor, M
Year published: 2022
What follows explains the analysis and documents the results of research into the financial consequences of physical violence perpetrated against Australian women in domestic partnerships. We seek to address the question: what are the financial implications for women who experience partner violence…

Public exposure and responses to data breaches in Australia: October 2022
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M, McEachern, S
Year published: 2022
This paper reports Australian’s views about data trust, cybercrime and data breaches and how these have changed. It is based on data from four waves of the ANUpoll collected over the period October 2019 to October 2022 with the two most recent waves being collected between the 8th and 22nd of…
Reducing Recidivism by 25% by 2025 Plan Evaluation Framework
Author/editor: Edwards, B, Taylor, H, Bartels, L
Year published: 2022
The ACT Government’s Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACS) has partnered with the Australian National University’s (ANU) Centre for Social Research and Methods (CSRM) to develop the Reducing Recidivism Research Collaboration (RRRC). The RRRC will examine the impact of initiatives central…
Research Note: Distributional Modelling of 2022/2 Federal Budget
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Gray, M, Joseph, C, Webster, R
Year published: 2022
The new Labor Government’s first budget (October 2022-23 Budget) includes a range of revenue and expenditure measures and updates the financial position of the Federal Government. This Research Note focusses on the distributional impact ofselected new measures relating to the personal income tax…