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Congratulations to Tom Griffiths and Inside Story for winning the Alfred Deakin Prize in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for the essay We Have Still Not Lived Long Enough about the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. This is the first time an online publication has won the award - not bad for a magazine barely a year old.New commentary
Books will survive, but not on paper
07 September, 2009 | Susan Hayes, Literature Director at the Australia Council, outlines her thoughts on digital publishing in The Australian.Award for bushfire essay
04 September, 2009 | Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires suggests there is one thing we never seem to learn from history, writes Tom Griffiths in this award-winning essayBack to health again
02 September, 2009 | The Preventive Health Taskforce's advice is entirely predictable, writes Jack Waterford in the Canberra TimesNothing exceeds like success
07 September, 2009 | Greater transparency is the fairest way of avoiding dubious lobbying practices, writes Flavio MenezesHow do we decide the fate of another?
07 September, 2009 | The story of Mary illustrates the complexity of making decisions for other people, writes John Chesterman in The AgeNew research
Creative Economy
Children's television standards 2009
Australian Communications and Media Authority
08 September, 2009 | Australian children will continue to be catered for on commercial television via quotas for children's (C) and preschool children's (P) programs under these new standards.The geography of creativity
NESTA - National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
04 September, 2009 | This ongoing NESTA project employs economic geography techniques to examine the importance of the location of creative industries if they are to play a positive role in innovation and growth.The future of the Internet and broadband... and how to enable it
Robert Atkinson, Richard Bennett | Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
07 September, 2009 | After 35 years of use, the Internet is reaching its design limits. The next 35 years of networking require a new architecture that can maintain the accepted services such as the Web as well as innovative new services that haven't yet been deployed.Increasing arts demand through better arts learning
The Wallace Foundation
04 September, 2009 | The key to increasing demand for the arts may well lie in reversing the 30-year-long downtrend in arts learning both in and out of school.Intercultural dialogue through the arts and culture? Concepts, policies, programmes, practices
International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
04 September, 2009 | This survey report discusses intercultural dialogue as the new priority for arts and cultural policy makers around the world.Towards green ICT strategies
Christian Reimsbach Kounatze | OECD Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry
07 September, 2009 | This OECD report analyses government programmes and business initiatives on ICT and the environment to address environmental challenges, particularly global warming and energy use.Open access to journal content as a case study in unlocking IP
Roger Clarke, Danny Kingsley | SCRIPTed
04 September, 2009 | This paper assesses the extent to which the theoretical openness of access to refereed papers in open access journals is being exploited in practice.Reinventing rural places
Chris Gibson, Anna Stewart | Festivals Project, Faculty of Science
07 September, 2009 | This ARC funded research project asked whether the proliferation of rural festivals in recent years has been significant for rural communities in contrast to their apparent short-lived nature?Economics
Superannuation 2009-2010
Leslie Nielson | Information and Research Services, Parliamentary Library
07 September, 2009 | This paper is designed to provide readers with a summary of superannuation taxation, contribution, preservation and payment rules.Framing the global economic downturn
Paul 't Hart, Karen Tindall | ANU E Press
07 September, 2009 | Using systematic content analysis of speeches and media coverage, this volume offers a unique comparative assessment of public leadership in eight countries and the EU in times of crisis.Message to the G20: Defeating protectionism begins at home
Bill Carmichael, Saul Eslake, Mark Thirlwell | Lowy Institute for International Policy
07 September, 2009 | This paper argues that the advice that G20 leaders have received to date fails to deal with the underlying causes of protectionism which results from decisions taken by governments at home, for domestic reasons.Education
"Under pressure I fall back to being a teacher…"
Lyn Yates, Brenda Holt | Australian Educational Researcher
04 September, 2009 | This article examines a Victorian high school's implementation of a new Year 9 program which was intended to interrupt a traditional academic curriculum and to create an imagined oasis of care and personal development for students.Feathers in the nest: establishing a supportive environment for women researchers
Nicole Hartley, Angela Dobele | Australian Educational Researcher
04 September, 2009 | This paper discusses research examining the attitudes and behaviours of researching women in academia and considers the effect of these factors on successful researching outcomes.Building an international research collaboration in early childhood education and care
Deborah Brennan, Fran Press | Social Policy Research Centre
03 September, 2009 | The policy domain of childhood education and care (ECEC) has experienced a huge surge of attention in recent years. However, while national governments have forged ahead with a range of policy initiatives, little comparative research has been undertaken.Environment & Planning
Fuel consumption by new passenger vehicles in Australia 1979-2008
Mark Cregan, David Gargett | Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
07 September, 2009 | Since 2001 the overall trend in fuel consumption has continued to decrease with average new light vehicle fuel consumption down 8.4 per cent to 8.14 litres per 100 kilometres.Monthly airport traffic data for top ten airports: January 2008 to current
Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
07 September, 2009 | This report provides monthly updates of revenue passengers and aircraft movement data for scheduled operations at top ten airports in Australia and including the totals for all Australian airports.Health
Health care expenditure on chronic kidney disease in Australia 2004-05
Frances Green | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
03 September, 2009 | Chronic kidney disease contributes substantially to health care expenditure in Australia and is increasing much faster than expenditure on total health care.Is uptake of genetic testing for colorectal cancer influenced by knowledge of insurance implications?
Louise A. Keogh | Medical Journal of Australia
06 September, 2009 | This study found that people are choosing not to obtain genetic information because of how it will affect their eligibility for insurance, despite the fact that early screening can prevent cancer from progressing.Moving beyond 'rates, roads and rubbish': How do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?
Steven Allender | Australia and New Zealand Health Policy
07 September, 2009 | This paper asks if regulatory intervention at local government level to create environments for healthy nutrition and increased physical activity could be a solution to the growing obesity epidemic.Evaluation of the Integrated Service Project for clients with challenging behaviour
Karen Fisher, Shannon McDermott, Ryan Gleeson | Social Policy Research Centre
03 September, 2009 | The Integrated Services Project for Clients with Challenging Behaviour (ISP) aims to decrease the adverse impact of challenging behaviour on clients, the community, and the service system. This report documents the progress of the program since 2005.Indigenous
The Indigenous Resiliency Project: a worked example of community-based participatory research
Julie Mooney-Somers, Lisa Maher | New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
07 September, 2009 | This case study is used to demonstrate how a group of university-based researchers and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services have used Community-based participatory research to work with young Indigenous Australians in relation to bloodborne viruses and sexually transmissible infections.Preventable chronic diseases in Aboriginal populations
Department of Health and Families
07 September, 2009 | The purpose of this paper is to provide background information about chronic diseases in the Aboriginal population in the NT and to stimulate input and comment to assist in the revision of the Preventable Chronic diseases Strategy (PCDS) and implementation plan.Mutant messages 2: Victoria's Indigenous family violence plan
Kyllie Cripps, Leanne Miller | Indigenous Law Bulletin
08 September, 2009 | This article critiques Victoria's ten year plan, Strong Culture, Strong Peoples, Strong Families: Towards a Safer Future for Indigenous Families and Communities.International
Rational to rationalise? Australia's future naval combat helicopters revisited
Andrew Davies | Australian Strategic Policy Institute
03 September, 2009 | ASPI has long argued that aviation is an area of capability shortfall in the Australian Navy but urges 'hasten slowly' in procuring new combat helicopters.Indonesia: Noordin Top's support base
International Crisis Group
07 September, 2009 | The 17 July 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings have produced calls for a strengthened security apparatus and harsher laws, but the more urgent priority is to understand the terrorists' local support base and target government programs accordingly, according to this report.Justice
Palermo on the Pacific Rim: Organised crime offences in the Asia Pacific Region
Andreas Schloenhardt | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
03 September, 2009 | This paper suggests that 'We must recognise the failure of the "organised crime laws" to win the "war on organised crime".'Politics
Web 2.0: The new tools for democratic conversations – a snapshot of initiatives in government
eGovernment Resource Centre
07 September, 2009 |Beautiful politicians
Amy King, Andrew Leigh | Centre for Economic Policy Research
04 September, 2009 | Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected?Reforming public services
Eidos Institute
07 September, 2009 | British polician Alan Milburn's speech given at an Eidos breakfast in Brisbane in September. Milburn led a radical reform of the UK's national health service to devolve decision-making, increase provider autonomy, diversify supply and empower patients.Social Policy
"and there's no real way that you could ... make it totally fair"
Alan Campbell | Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse
03 September, 2009 | This article discusses children's perceptions about how decisions were made immediately after their parent' separation, their own participation in these decisions and their thoughts about the concept of equal parenting time.Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind
Alison Booth, Yuji Tamura | Centre for Economics Policy Research
04 September, 2009 | Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, this paper investigates how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour supply in the 1990s.Doing better for children
OECD
07 September, 2009 | What is the actual state of child well-being today? How much are governments spending on children and are they spending it at the right times?Culturally responsive family dispute resolution in family relationship centres
Susan Armstrong | Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse
03 September, 2009 | This article examines aspects of post-separation services and service provision and summarises the literature related to the provision of culturally responsive family dispute resolution.Child migrants from the United Kingdom
Janet Phillips, Coral Dow | Information and Research Services, Parliamentary Library
07 September, 2009 | Between 1922 and 1967 about 150,000 children with an average age of eight years and nine months were shipped from Great Britain to help populate the British Dominions of Canada, Rhodesia, New Zealand and Australia with 'good white stock'.Review of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999: issues paper
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
08 September, 2009 | Set up to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the EOWW Act, this review will consider practical ways to improve the equal opportunity framework to deliver better outcomes for Australian women.The wellbeing of Australians: gambling, chocolate and swine flu
Robert A. Cummins | Australian Centre on Quality of Life
04 September, 2009 | The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index monitors the subjective wellbeing of the Australian population. The first survey was conducted in April 2001 and this report concerns the 21st survey, undertaken in May 2009.
Royal commissions and official inquiries
Australian Law Reform Commission
08 September, 2009 | A legislative framework is required to govern the establishment and operation of official inquiries at the federal level to ensure that such inquiries have adequate investigatory powers while the rights of individuals are protected, according to this discussion paper.New audio
The future of museums - Part One
04 September, 2009 | The way we interact with museums and their collections is changing fast, and so too is the way they're now engaging with us.Schooling and the common good
04 September, 2009 | Jack Keating discusses his new report on education with Peter Clarke in Inside StoryThe new Australian alcohol guidelines: what happens now?
07 September, 2009 | The National Health and Medical Reserach Council (NHMRC) recently released the Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. These new guidelines are different in many ways from the previous ones (NHMRC 2001) and aim to establish the evidence base on reducing alcohol-related health risks.Why Privacy Matters
03 September, 2009 | In this speech for Privacy Victoria, former High Court judge Michael Kirby addresses local and international issues of privacy protection.New video
Alana Valentine on the role Australian stories in theatre
07 September, 2009 | More than any other artform, theatre preserves and recycles "classic" works. While there is certainly a place for this, does it come at the cost of new voices?Death on Palm Island
07 September, 2009 | In November 2004 on Palm Island an Aboriginal man, Cameron Doomadgee, was arrested for swearing at a police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in custody.Alan Milburn on reforming public services
07 September, 2009 | Alan Milburn led a radical reform of the UKs national health service to devolve decision-making, increase provider autonomy, diversify supply and empower patients. He is a proponent of citizen-centred public services.What's so good about democracy?
07 September, 2009 | Professor John Keane, author of "The Life and Death of Democracy", discusses the history of an evolving ideal that continues to shape our world, from the Ancients through to today.New jobs
Executive Director
South Australian Council of Social Service 07 September, 2009 | The South Australian Council of Social Services (SACOSS) is the peak non-government representative body for the health and community services sector in South Australia. SACOSS is a not for profit organisation, with a belief and vision of Justice, Opportunity and Shared Wealth for all South Australians. SACOSS provides a strong and independent voice for fair and just public policy and equitable and responsive services. SACOSS members help to build a more justNew events
'Counter-memorialisation'?: The destruction of monuments in minority nationalist and subversive militancy
10 September, 2009 | This seminar, presented by Dr Daniel Leach, aims to provide an overview of the history of monument destruction as a subversive tactic, drawing upon key examples and examining their symbolic, political and historical impacts.
LOCATION: Room SPW226, Swinburne University, Hawthorn Campus ORGANISED BY: Institute of Social Research Evidence-based policy
28 October, 2009 | How to lay the groundwork today for better use of evidence tomorrow - Productivity Commission An evaluation of the UK Government's use of evidence based policy and the implications for Australia What your public really thinks about you and your policies - Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
LOCATION: National Convention Centre ORGANISED BY: Criterion conferences The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing - International Arts and Health Conference, Australia
10 November, 2009 | Join 600 delegates from the USA, UK, Canada and Australia for this major international arts and health conference which will explore how creative activities are being utilised to aid and improve health and wellbeing in individuals and in communities.
LOCATION: Glasshouse Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre ORGANISED BY: Arts and Health Australia New books
Australian arts organisations directory
04 September, 2009 | A comprehensive 26-page directory containing contact details for nearly 200 Australian arts organisations.Australasian Journal of ArtsHealth
04 September, 2009 | The Australasian Journal of ArtsHealth (AJAH) is a new, international, blind-peer-reviewed electronic journal providing an outlet for researchers and practitioners working in the broad areas arts and health.New websites
Australian Public Service Commission
07 September, 2009 | This site promotes good practice in managing people, supports leadership and learning and development in the Australian Public Service (APS), fosters ethical behaviour and workplaces that value diversity.
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