This CHASS report details the benefits to Australia of encouraging big collaborative research projects, to provide solutions to the big problems the country faces. These 'big issues' include caring for an ageing population, maintaining water supply, cyber crime, and aboriginal health and welfare. This CHASS report details the benefits to Australia of encouraging big collaborative...

Victor Callan and John Gardner examine links between prisoners' participation in the vocational education and training (VET) programs available within the Queensland prison system and their chances of returning to prison. The findings reveal that being involved in VET before initial release decreases the chances of returning to prison from 32 per cent to 23...

Rural Australia is under increasing social, economic and environmental pressure—and there is a perception of rural Australia struggling to adjust. All people have mobility choices, to move towards a community that is attractive; to stay in a community that is attractive relative to the cost of moving elsewhere; or to move away from a community...