Other publications
Taking stock: Wellbeing and political attitudes in Australia at the start of the post-COVID era, January 2023
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Gray, M
Year published: 2023
The aim of this paper is to use data collected during January 2023 and Australia’s recent history to take stock of Australia’s wellbeing, as well as its attitudes towards key political and social institutions as Australia enters a post-COVID world. The data was collected by the ANU Centre for...
Analysis of the impact increasing the rate and extending eligibility of Parenting Payment Single on financial living standards
Author/editor: Gray, M & Phillips, B
Year published: 2023
According to the 2021 Census there were just over half-a-million single parent families with a dependent child under 15 years of age and just over 1.5 million people living in single parent families (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2022). The vast majority of single parents are women. Single...
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...
Bail and Parole App Scoping Project: Final Report
Author/editor: Taylor, H, Bartels, L
Year published: 2022
This project scoped whether application software for a mobile or similar device (an app) that supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on bail or parole is regarded as appropriate, useful and beneficial within the ACT Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities involved with...
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Australian Suicide Deaths and Other Deaths of Despair Between 2001 and 2020
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Ellen, L
Year published: 2022
Analysis of suicide monitoring data at smaller specified units of geography and time, and considering possible associations with other causes of death, has the potential to provide important information upon which to design prevention and intervention initiatives. We constructed and analysed a...
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...
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...
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...
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...