Resources

Australian Resources

Government Agencies

Australian Government
http://australia.gov.au/

A Guide to the Australian Government
http://www.directory.gov.au/

Parliament of Australia
http://www.aph.gov.au/

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
http://www.pmc.gov.au/

The Treasury
http://www.treasury.gov.au/

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
http://www.facs.gov.au (note Social Policy Research Series and links to earlier series of Department of Social Security Research Papers)

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
http://www.dewr.gov.au

Department of Human Services
http://www.humanservices.gov.au

Centrelink
http://www.centrelink.gov.au

Health Insurance Commission/Medicare Australia
http://www.hic.gov.au

Department of Health and Ageing
http://www.health.gov.au

Australian Institute for Health and Welfare
http://www.aihw.gov.au/

Australian National Audit Office
http://www.anao.gov.au

Australian Public Service Commission
http://www.apsc.gov.au

Parliamentary Library Social Policy Resource Guides
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/

Australian Bureau of Statistics
http://www.abs.gov.au/

Data Sources

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Research and Publications
http://acci.asn.au/Research-and-Publications

Australian Consolidated Acts
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare online data collections and resources
http://www.aihw.gov.au/data/

Australian Treaties Database
http://www.dfat.gov.au/treaties/index.html

Australian Treaties Library
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/

Measures of Australia’s Progress
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/1370.0.55.001

National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au/

Parliamentary Library
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliam...

Reserve Bank Publications
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/index.html

Reserve Bank Statistics
http://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/index.html

Year book Australia
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/year+book+products?op...

Universities and Research Centres

Australian National University

Australian Data Archive
http://ada.edu.au/

Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
http://adsri.anu.edu.au/

Australian Survey of Social Attitudes
http://aussa.anu.edu.au/

Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
http://caepr.anu.edu.au/

Centre for Economic Policy Research
http://cbe.anu.edu.au/college/schools-centres/cepr/

Children’s Policy Centre
http://cpc.crawford.anu.edu.au/

SPEAR: The Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis, and Research Centre
http://rse.anu.edu.au/spear/index.php

Curtin University

John Curtin Institute of Public Policy
http://business.curtin.edu.au/research/centres_institutions/jcipp/index.cfm

Women in Social & Economic Research
http://business.curtin.edu.au/research/centres_institutions/research_cen...

Griffith University

Centre for Governance and Public Policy
http://www.griffith.edu.au/business-government/centre-governance-public-...

Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing
http://www.griffith.edu.au/business-government/centre-work-organisation-...

Macquarie University

Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/crsi_home/

Department of Economics Research Papers
http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/our_departments/Economics/econ...

RMIT University

Centre for Applied Social Research
http://www.rmit.edu.au/casr

Swinburne University of Technology

Centre for Social Impact
http://www.csi.edu.au/

University of Canberra

National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
http://www.natsem.canberra.edu.au/

ANZSOG Institute for Governance
http://www.governanceinstitute.edu.au/

University of Melbourne

Centre for Public Policy
http://public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/

Centre for Social Impact
http://www.csi.edu.au/

Department of Economics
http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/

HILDA Survey
http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/

Journeys Home
http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/journeys_home/

Melbourne Institute
http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/

University of Newcastle

Centre of Full Employment and Equity
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/

University of NSW

Australian Human Rights Centre
http://www.ahrcentre.org/

Australian Institute for Population Aging Research, Australian School of Business
http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/australianinstituteforpopulationagei...

Centre for Applied Economic Research, Australian School of Business
http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/centreforappliedeconomicresearch/Pag...

Centre for Refugee research
http://www.crr.unsw.edu.au/

Centre for Social Impact
http://www.csi.edu.au/

CPS Research Group (previously Centre for Pensions and Superannuation), Australian School of Business
http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/cps/Pages/default.aspx

Journalism and Social Media Research Centre
http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/

National Centre for HIV Social research
http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au/

Social Justice Project, Faculty of Law
http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/centres/social-justice-project

Social Policy Research Centre
http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/

Taxation and Business Law
http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/taxationandbusinesslaw/research/Pages...

University of Queensland

Institute for Social Science research
http://www.issr.uq.edu.au/

University of South Australia

Australian Centre for Child Protection
http://www.unisa.edu.au/Research/Australian-Centre-for-Child-Protection/

Centre for Work + Life
http://www.unisa.edu.au/Research/Centre-for-Work-Life/

Hawke Research Institute
http://www.unisa.edu.au/Research/Hawke-Research-Institute/

Social Policy Research Group
http://www.unisa.edu.au/Research/Social-Policy-Research-Group/

University of Sydney

Centre for Disability Studies
http://www.cds.med.usyd.edu.au/

University of Western Australia

Centre for Social Impact
http://www.csi.edu.au/

Professional bodies

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
http://www.assa.edu.au/

Australian Social Policy Association
http://www.aspa.org.au/

Think Tanks, Research Centres and Lobby Groups

The Australia Institute
https://www.tai.org.au/

Australian Institute of Family Studies
http://aifs.gov.au

Australian Council of Social Service
http://www.acoss.org.au/

Australian Fabians
http://www.fabian.org.au/1.asp

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
http://www.ahuri.edu.au/

Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
http://www.aracy.org.au/

Benevolent Society
http://www.benevolent.org.au/

Brotherhood of St Laurence
http://www.bsl.org.au/

Centre for Independent Studies
http://www.cis.org.au/

Centre for Policy Development
http://cpd.org.au/about/

Child Rights Australia
http://www.childrights.org.au/

Committee for Economic Development of Australia
http://www.ceda.com.au/

COTA for Older Australians
http://www.cota.org.au/australia/

The Evatt Foundation
http://evatt.org.au/

Institute of Public Affairs
http://www.ipa.org.au/

Menzies Research Centre
http://www.mrcltd.org.au/

National Assessment Program
http://www.nap.edu.au/

National Pro Bono Resource Centre
http://www.nationalprobono.org.au/home.asp

National Welfare Rights Network
https://www.welfarerights.org.au/

Per Capita
http://www.percapita.org.au/

Selected Journals and general social policy sources

Cambridge Journals Online
http://journals.cambridge.org

Journal of Social Policy
http://journals.cambridge.org
Journal: Social Policy and Administration
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0144-5596

Australian Social Policy Journal
http://www.facs.gov.au (note also links to previous Department of Social Security Publications, including the Social Security Journal).

Journal: Critical Social Policy
http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=5

Australian Policy Online
http://www.apo.org.au

Family Matters
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fammats.html

Sage Journals Online
http://online.sagepub.com

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand
http://www.msd.govt.nz/publications/journal.html

Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com

General social policy web site
www.sosig.ac.uk/vts/social-policy/

SPA Online: website of the Social Policy Association of the UK
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/spsw/spa/index.htm

Social Policy Net: guide to social policy links on the Web
http://www.socialpolicy.net/

Introduction to Social Policy
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/

International Resources

Organisations

Asian Development Bank
http://www.adb.org/

Council of Europe People with Disabilities
http://hub.coe.int/web/coe-portal/what-we-do/society/disabilities?dynLin...

European Commission Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion
http://ec.europa.eu/social/home.jsp?langId=en

Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network (GLADNET)
http://www.gladnet.org/

Inter-America Development Bank
http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html

International Association for Research in Income and Wealth
http://www.iariw.org/

International Labour Organization Skills and Employability Department
http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang–en/index.htm

International Labour Organization Social Protection Sector
http://www.ilo.org/protection/lang–en/index.htm

International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

International Social Security Association
http://www.issa.int/

International Sociological Association: Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy RC19
http://www.isa-sociology.org/rc19.htm

Nordic Social Statistical Committee
http://nososco-eng.nom-nos.dk/default.asp?side=88

OECD
http://www.oecd.org/

OECD Social and Welfare issues
http://www.oecd.org/social/

OECD Tax
http://www.oecd.org/tax/

Social Policy Association of the UK
http://www.social-policy.org.uk/

UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/

UNICEF Office of Research
http://www.unicef-irc.org/

United Nation Enable
http://www.un.org/disabilities/

World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/

World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/

Data Sources

Asian Development Bank Statistics and Databases
http://www.adb.org/data/statistics

Australasian Legal Information Institute
http://www.austlii.edu.au/

The Campbell Collaboration Library
http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/lib/

Council of Europe Topics
http://hub.coe.int/web/coe-portal/topics

ILO Disability and Work
http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/skills-knowledge-and-employability/disa...

ILO Statistics and Databases
http://www.ilo.org/global/statistics-and-databases/lang–en/index.htm

Inter-American Development Bank Social Protection
http://www.iadb.org/en/topics/social-protection/social-protection-and-th...

International Monetary Fund Data and Statistics
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm

LIS (Luxembourg Income Study)
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/

OECD Social Policies and Data
http://www.oecd.org/social/soc/

OECD Statistics
http://www.oecd.org/statistics/

OECD Working Papers
http://www.oecd.org/about/publishing/oecdworkingpapersseries.htm

A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html

UNICEF Assessing the Impact of Economic Trends on Children
http://www.childimpact.unicef-irc.org/

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
http://www.unece.org/

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Gender
http://www.unece.org/gender/Welcome.html

United Nations Human Development Reports
http://hdr.undp.org/en/

United Nations Population Division
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/

United Nations Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/default.htm

United Nations Treaty Collection
http://treaties.un.org/Home.aspx

World Bank
http://data.worldbank.org/

World Health Organization: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
http://www.who.int/classifications/icf/en/

Other Specific Regions and Countries

For other international resources including European and Asian organisations, research centres and specific country information please download ‘resource file (PRF) (128Kb)’
http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/media/File/resource_list.pdf

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