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Democracy & Justice Research Flagship - Projects

Current Projects

A history of Australian and New Zealand responses to refugees(Neumann)
Social memory and historical justice(Neumann, Tumarkin)
A global history of settler colonialism(Veracini)
The new commons: innovation and social production in the public realm (McShane)
Electoral reform (Costar)
Campaign financing (Costar)
Nation-building in East Timor (Leach)

Project Archive

Democracy, wired community and new media

Liberal Machines:Information Poverty, Political Culture and the Uses of New Communications Technologies
Wired High Rise

Gender and cultural diversity

More Bytes: Girls and Information Technology
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Food Businesses: Skills for Environmental Health Officers
Women in Information Technology
Recruitment and Retention
Professional Induction of Female and Male Firefighters

Human rights and immigration

Pacific Labour and Australian Horticulture
Political Asylum, Minority Rights and Citizenship
Retrieving the Record: The White Australia Policy, Citizenship Education and New Applications for Archival Research
An Australian History of Deportation
Climate Change and Forced Migration
Harraga - A film by Annika Lems and Christine Moderbacher

Political participation, civic capacity and education

Community Consultation and the Hard to Reach: Local Government, Social Profiling and Civic Infrastructure
Bringing Democracy Home:Enfranchising Australia's Homeless Citizens
Attitudes to Water:Assessing the Views of CALD Communities
Carlton Lifelong Learning Hub
Problem gambling vulnerability

Public sector, privatisation, accountability

The Effectiveness of Mandatory Comparison Rates: Information, Capacity and Choice
Market Segmentation and Domestic Electricity Supply in Victoria
Changing electricity retailers
Costs and Pathways of Homelessness

Youth policy