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ABSTRACT Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers arriving unauthorised by boat have had a particularly harmful impact on unaccompanied children. An estimated 1,832 unaccompanied as... Read more
ABSTRACT Across the world large numbers of people are displaced every year and seek asylum in other countries. For example, in 2010 ‘…there were an estimated 43.7 million forcibl... Read more
Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Refugee Communities – Australian Institute of Family Studies
ABSTRACT This paper looks at what is currently known about intimate partner violence in Australian refugee communities, and what service providers can do to ensure appropriate support is ava... Read more
ABSTRACT Formerly: Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics, 2013 Family, domestic, and sexual violence is a community-wide issue that requires a whole-of-government response. In... Read more
ABSTRACT DECEMBER KEY POINTS TREND ESTIMATES Employment increased 23,100 to 12,711,600. Full-time employment increased 11,800 to 8,697,600 and part-time employment increased 11,200 to 4,014,... Read more
ABSTRACT Objective: To examine the impacts of social integration and loneliness on the mental health of humanitarian migrants (HMs) in Australia over time. Methods: A total of 1,723 HMs who... Read more
ABSTRACT A solution generation and planning system uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning (ML) data models, predictive analytics and natural language processin... Read more
ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently seeing major media interest, significant interest from federal agencies, and interest from society in general. From its origins in the 1950... Read more
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Robust and persistent links between early-life adversities and later-life mental distress have previously been observed. Individual and social resources are associated... Read more
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Socioeconomically disadvantaged children often have psychosocial problems. This study examined the mediating role of maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy, infa... Read more
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: There remains a dearth of life-course studies analyzing childhood environment and late-life chronic illness. In particular, few have addressed possible early-life predi... Read more
ABSTRACT Despite the average Australian equating homelessness with sleeping on the streets, only 7% of the people officially classified as homeless in Australia are rough sleepers. Though th... Read more
ABSTRACT This report results from an all-day round-table discussion by 32 experts from diverse backgrounds in Australia. The participants met in Parliament House Canberra on Monday 18 June 2... Read more
ABSTRACT If you are not yet convinced that there is inequality in Australia, you are exceptional. If you do not think it matters, you are also out of step. New survey data shows a strong maj... Read more
ABSTRACT From 2012 to 2017, the number of people imprisoned in Australia grew by a third. This wasn’t in response to any crime wave, or any increase in crime at all. Over that same period, t... Read more
