Taking the Long View: Indigenous Employment 1981–2021
Author/editor: Eva, C, Gray, M, Hunter, B, Leroy-Dyer, S
Year published: 2025
There is a significant body of research which attempts to quantify rates of Indigenous employment. However, previous estimates offer an often-inconsistent depiction across recent decades, with the specifications of analysis both by researchers and government changing, and the data environment…
Analysis of 2025 Budget and Albanese Government Tax and Welfare Changes
Author/editor: Phillips, B, Joseph, C, Webster, R, Gray M
Year published: 2025
This paper analyses the distributional impact of the Albanese Government's Commonwealth Budgets (2022 to 2025) and also considers the impact of the 2026 and 2027 tax cuts outlined in the 2025 Commonwealth Budget.The analysis of the impacts of the Commonwealth Budgets is limited to changes in the…
Relative income poverty: levels, trends, context and issues
Author/editor: Bray, J Rob
Year published: 2024
There are many conceptions of what poverty means in contemporary western societies, and an array of ways of seeking to measure its incidence. Data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey is used here to consider these issues and analyse trends over the past 21 years…
Childcare in Australia: Historical trends in provision and Australian Government funding. A statistical compendium 1969-2022
Author/editor: Bray, R J
Year published: 2023
This note presents some data on Australian1 government expenditures on childcare and on the size of the formal childcare sector, in particular the segments of it which have been underpinned by Australian government financial support, directly and through subsidies paid to parents. While the initial…
Better data for the delivery of grant funded social services
Author/editor: Gray, M
Year published: 2022
The Australian government delivers social, educational and health services via a mix of direct government provision, contracting out arrangements and grant programs. The extent and importance of grant programs for the delivery of social services is not always appreciated. While it is difficult to…
Evaluation of the Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) program pilot
Author/editor: N Priest, O Alam, K Dunn, J Nelson, R Sharples, D Cronin, M Truong, K Francis, Y Paradies, P Curry & A Kavanagh
Year published: 2020
The Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) project is a major research study focused on understanding and addressing experiences and attitudes to racism and racial discrimination, and bystander responses to racism and racial discrimination in Australian schools.
Faith-based communities' responses to family and domestic violence
Author/editor: M Truong, M Sharif, D Pasalich, A Olsen, B Calabria & N Priest
Year published: 2020
Reduction in family and domestic violence (FDV) is a national and international priority. Under the Third Action Plan (2016–2019) of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022, National Priority Area 3 focuses on primary revention practices, and assisting…