A study of community attitudes towards protest in Australia, focusing on the influence of protest tactics and the interaction with belief in conspiracy theories. The study found that support for protest was influenced by both the cause and the tactics used, with peaceful protests significantly more supported than disruptive or violent protests.

Intimate partner homicide (IPH) is one of the most common forms of homicide in Australia. Considerable recent public debate has focused on the issue yet relatively few programs have been designed to prevent it. This paper explores whether and how a multi-agency model designed to intervene with fixated individual could be applied to the problem.

This study involved interviews with a sample of individuals who protested in opposition to public health measures introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research provides important context to the reasons for protest action and the spectrum of grievances and beliefs that motivated anti-authority protest during the pandemic.

In this paper, the authors replicate a prediction model that was developed in New South Wales to predict high-harm offending among outlaw motorcycle gangs nationally and in other states. They find that, even with a limited pool of data from a national police information system, high-harm offending can be predicted with a relatively high degree...

In late 2022, the Australian Government introduced legislation to establish an independent National Anti-Corruption Commission, with broad jurisdiction to investigate corruption in the Commonwealth public sector. This paper provides a baseline measure of perceived corruption in Australia. The paper also examines community perceptions of corruption and its relationship with the perceived legitimacy of politicians and...