Collection: Tech Book

Reviews available literature on the cost and effectiveness of options for controlling motor vehicle emission of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. Highlights several economic incentives that could be used to complement regulatory controls.

Outlines research into the relationships between the costs and benefits of using private housing as the home base for care for older people rather than residential care facilities.

A literature review and analysis of the existing information related to the economics of urban salinity.

The ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) uses the cultural definition of homelessness to enumerate the homeless population. The 2006 Census targeted Australia's homeless population with a special enumeration strategy,

Intended for use as a resource book for teachers, a life-saver for casual teachers who need a variety of interesting activities at their fingertips and an alternative holiday or spare time reading/activity book for children.

Findings of study commissioned as part of a Department of Housing and Regional Development program to improve urban development, examining the ways in which various types of urban form and structure may affect the incidence of crime.

The Ethnic Affairs Action Plan 2000 had a built in review mechanism. Achievements under the plan were to be evaluated in the year 2001, followed by a report to government which would suggest strategies for the future.

Workshop held to ensure that the methods for the identification and assessment of the cultural values of forests were in accordance with, and developed upon, the leading edge of heritage research in forests. The workshop looked at what was then best practice in the fields of identification, signi...

The Cultures in the Workplace (CIWP) program is designed to enable staff of health teams to work together to improve accessibility and approporiateness of health services to people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

This background report has been prepared to show the changes and improvements in ambient air quality for the period covering the first 10 years of the Action for Air plan.