Research

The ACMS report provides an overview of the background and methodology of the Australian Child Maltreatment Study including approach to instrument adaptation and refinement and overall methodology. The report ends with a series of 8 key recommendations.
This report uses the best and latest available data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to explore both how income and wealth are shared across the community and changes in income and wealth and their distribution since the COVID recession.
This research investigates the key links between housing and poverty. Its purpose is to draw together different dimensions of the relationships between housing costs and poverty, including policy settings, tax and transfer systems, housing assistance and place-based dimensions and individual capabilities.

Despite significant policy developments addressing youth housing insecurity in Australia, youth remain subject to multiple housing arrangements that can lead…

Homelessness is a long-standing social problem in many countries. People who work and volunteer in homeless shelters struggle with the…

The way people source, prepare, and consume food is deeply interconnected with social practice. Drawing on theories of everyday life…

Youth self-identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, asexual, and other identities (LGBTQIA+) are overrepresented among the homeless youth…

This final Inquiry examines the challenges of financing to buy a first home. It incorporates four supporting Research Projects and…