Young people’s interest in a Defence career: Findings from Waves 1-3 of the GENERATION study
Author/editor: Arnup, J, Doery, K & Edwards, B
Year published: 2026
This report investigates the factors shaping young Australians’ plans to join the Australian Defence Force (ADF). There is a current need to increase the numbers of the ADF. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the GENERATION Study, this report examines the characteristics of…
“Let it not be a fight of the minority” Priorities of young multicultural Victorians to reduce the harms of racism and its impact on their lives
Author/editor: Doery, K.*, Lee, A.*, Ravalji, K., Nguyen, P., Olsen, A., Stonnill, M. & Priest, N.
Year published: 2026
This report amplifies the voices and priorities of multicultural young people with respect to racism and its impacts. Drawing on qualitative focus group data collected in Victoria, Australia in 2021, the report documents both the contemporary manifestations of racism as experienced by young people…
Experiences of home ownership in a remote Indigenous community
Author/editor: Terrill L.
Year published: 2025
In 2007, the Australian government introduced a program to encourage the uptake of home ownership in communities on Indigenous land. At the time the only community to take up the option was Wurrumiyanga on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory. There have as a result been 16 grants of home…
Questions of trust: Are we looking at the problem the right way?
Author/editor: Masters A & Perry R
Year published: 2025
For a number of years now, public administration scholars and practitioners have been concerned with the declining trust in public institutions. Putnam (2000) mapped the decline in trust in America in his seminal work Bowling Alone. This was one of many problems, but this concern about declining…
Applying to University through the Early Offer Scheme: Insights from the GENERATION study
Author/editor: Jessica Arnup, Kate Doery, Pedro Riquelme-Gonzalez & Ben Edwards
Year published: 2025
Many Australian universities offer secondary school students a place in a higher education course before they have completed their senior secondary studies. This Early Offers Scheme enables eligible Year 12 students to receive conditional acceptance into an undergraduate course from September,…
The cost of children and adequacy of family payments in Australia
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Webster, R & Gray M
Year published: 2025
This paper develops estimates of the cost of children in Australia for the first time using financial stress data from the HILDA longitudinal Survey. The paper finds that using financial stress data in pooled waves of HILDA provides a strong basis for estimating equivalence scales and their related…
A review of remote employment policy: Where are we, and how did we get here?
Author/editor: Klein, E, Markham, F
Year published: 2025
Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, this paper critically examines the trajectory and impacts of employment policies in remote Indigenous Australia. It first provides a snapshot of the current remote employment crisis. By tracing policy developments from historical contexts to current…