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…
A basic income for Australia? Exploring rationale, design, distribution and cost
Author/editor: Ingles, D, Phillips, B & Stewart, M.
Year published: 2019
This paper considers the potential for a basic income (BI) or guaranteed minimum income (GMI) scheme for Australia. We examine the proposal for a GMI advocated by the Henderson Poverty Inquiry in 1975. We briefly discusses the rationale for a BI and then focus on work incentive effects, design and…
Describing the top of the income distribution in Australia
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Breunig, R & Markham, F
Year published: 2019
In this paper, we use a new source of linked Australian census, tax, social security and Medicare data to analyse the characteristics of those who were at the very top of the income distribution in 2011. The Basic Longitudinal Extract 2011 (BLE2011), from the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project…
Findings from the 2017 Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) student and staff surveys
Author/editor: Priest, N, Chong, S, Truong, M, Sharif, M, Dunn, K, Paradies, Y, Nelson, J, Alam, O, Ward, A & Kavanagh, A.
Year published: 2019
The Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) project is the first large-scale population-representative study in experiences and attitudes to racism and racial bullying, and on bystander responses to racism and racial discrimination among Australian students in government schools in New South Wales (NSW)…
Predicting the unpredicted: what longitudinal data can tell us about the 2019 Australian federal election
Author/editor: Biddle, N.
Year published: 2019
On 11 April 2019, the then Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove called a Federal election for 18 May. According to the Newspoll published on 7 April, the two-party preferred vote reported Labor with an election-winning lead of 52% to 48% over the Coalition, with almost identical primary votes for…