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Mozilla Cybersecurity Delphi 1.0: Towards a user-centric policy framework

Mozilla
24 September 2015

Government cybersecurity paradigms that focus heavily on securing critical infrastructure should shift and expand to consider a much wider array of connected users and devices, types of actors, and types of risk.

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Indigenous belief in a just world: New Zealand Māori and other ethnicities compared

Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
24 September 2015
Arthur Grimes, Robert MacCulloch, Fraser McKay

Striking differences in economic outcomes exist within New Zealand for Māori relative to the non-Māori population. This paper analyses whether certain beliefs and values differ systematically between Māori and non-Māori, and whether these beliefs can be linked to the adoption of particular individual actions that may affect economic outcomes.

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Young Australians’ attitudes to violence against women

Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
24 September 2015
Anita Harris, Nikki Honey, Kim Webster, Kristen Diemer, Violeta Politoff

This report focuses on the responses given by 1,923 young people aged between 16 – 22 years who participated in the larger National Community Attitudes towards Violence Against Women Survey.

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The role of single-site supportive housing in addressing homelessness

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
24 September 2015
Cameron Parsell, Ornella Moutou, Eduardo Lucio, Sharon Parkinson

This research project evaluated the effectiveness of supportive housing models. It found that they were generally effective at supporting tenants—many of whom had a history of chronic homelessness—to sustain tenancies and make improvements in their life.

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Current models of health service delivery for people with intellectual disability: Literature review

Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW)
23 September 2015
Gianfranco Giuntoli, B. J. Newton, Karen R. Fisher

With the aim of delivering improved health services for people with intellectual disabilities in NSW, this literature review concentrates on nine models in Australia and the UK.

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Cancer in Victoria: statistics & trends 2014

Cancer Council Victoria
23 September 2015
Cancer Council Victoria

A compilation of the latest available Victorian cancer statistics. Included in the report are detailed tables on cancer incidence, mortality and survival, and projections of incidence and mortality to 2029.

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Technology and Australia's future: new technologies and their role in our security, cultural, democratic, social and economic systems

Australian Council of Learned Academies
23 September 2015
Robert C Williamson, Michelle Nic Raghnaill, Kirsty Douglas, Dana Sanchez

New technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for economic growth and community wellbeing, but only if Australians are ready to adapt and learn, according to a new report which explores what it takes to win in the technology race and manage the human costs of disruptive technology.

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Public safety mobile broadband: draft report

Productivity Commission
23 September 2015
Productivity Commission

This draft report looks at the best way to deliver a Public Safety Mobile Broadband (PSMB) capability for emergency services that is reliable, interoperable and works across Australia.

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Australian Government commits to action on domestic violence

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia)
23 September 2015
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia)

An infographic explaining the actions the Australian Government will take on domestic violence.

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Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication special issue: mapping the landscape of research data

Pacific University Libraries, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
22 September 2015
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

The attitudes, behaviors, and practices around data sharing across the academy writ large are in an early stage of evolution.

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Collaborative management: Community engagement as the decision-making process

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2014
Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy

Planner-led technical decision processes identify a step-wise process for making decisions which typically includes the following steps: defining the problem, developing alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and making the decision. There are also process-led legal decision processes that have...

The operation and interplay of polycentricity, procedural fairness and expert opinion evidence in the context of environmental dispute resolution

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2014
Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy

The Bulga (or Warkworth Mine) Case recently heard at first instance by the NSW Land and Environment Court, and on appeal by the NSW Court of Appeal, reveals some interesting insights into the operation and interplay of polycentricity, procedural fairness and expert opinion evidence in the...

A new water policy option for Australia?: Collaborative water governance, compliance and enforcement and audited self-management

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2014
Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy

One of Australia's greatest challenges is managing its scarce water resources. However, flaws in the design and implementation of collaborative water governance risk undermining Australia's water reforms. What then are the best ways to collaboratively govern water use; and how and in...

River basin water management between European union member states: What can Australia learn from another multi-level governance system?

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2014
Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy

Comparing Europe's approach to river basin management to Australia's approach, in the same context, may seem an unlikely idea. After all, there are probably more differences than similarities of climate, population, landscape and system of governance between the two areas. Yet, it...

Adam Smith Can Change Your Life [Book Review]

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2015
Institute of Public Affairs Review: A Quarterly Review of Politics and Public Affairs, The

Review(s) of: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life, By Russ Roberts, Portfolio, 2014, 272 pages

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