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What is concerning Tasmanians during the pandemic? Report 2
The Tasmania Project has found that while Tasmanians are adapting well in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, they also hold considerable concerns relating to the health and well-being of themselves and their families and friends as well as the state of the global economy. Please follow the link to view the full report.
Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – May 2020
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania. To access all of the graphs, tables and footnotes, download Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – May 2020. The May 2020 Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot provides an overview of interstate and overseas migration to and from Tasmania for the year ended 30 June 2019, based on […]
Reshaping the Lucky Country
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania The COVID-19 global pandemic has revealed an inconvenient truth for Australia; we have a national economy founded on consumption. In fact, it is both our societal values and underlying political ideologies which are geared to increasing consumption to grow our economy rather than […]
COVID-19: The long road to recovery must start now
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania To access all of the graphs, tables and footnotes, download COVID-19: The long road to recovery must start now (PDF 177KB). Less than three hours after Premier Peter Gutwein announced the effective closure of Tasmania’s borders in response to the global pandemic crisis from COVID-19, […]
A growing Hobart needs a co-educational public secondary school
This issue of the lack of a co-educational public secondary school within the city of Hobart has regained momentum in recent weeks on the back of the establishment of a parent-led group, Hobart High Community – Tasmania group on Facebook. The group, which now has over 500 members (disclosure: as a parent, I am a […]
Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – January 2020
Prepared by Dr Lisa Denny, Institute for Social Change, University of Tasmania To access all of the graphs, tables and footnotes, download Tasmanian Demographic Analysis SnapShot – January 2020 (PDF 321KB). The January 2020 Tasmanian Demographic Analysis ShapShot provides an overview of quarterly Australian demographic statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in December 2019 […]
Experts push for end to health and housing divide
An international housing expert is in Hobart today to urge policy makers to invest more in housing for the sake of the economy and public health. David E. Jacobs (pictured left with UTAS professor Keith Jacobs) is chief scientist with the National Center for Healthy Housing in the United States and the director of the World […]
Tasmanian women, children focus of housing after family violence report
Tasmanian women and children experiencing domestic violence are more likely to stay in abusive environments due to difficulties accessing social and affordable housing, the latest Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) report revealed yesterday. Lead author of the AHURI report, ‘Housing outcomes after family violence’, the University of Tasmania’s Research Fellow Dr Kathleen Flanagan, […]
Talking Point: Time to reflect on the drivers of jobs growth
This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change Research Fellow Dr Lisa Denny, first appeared in the Mercury newspaper on Saturday 6 April. LAST week the Australian Taxation Office released the taxation statistics for almost 14 million Australians who completed a tax return for the 2016-17 financial year. The focus was on the richest and poorest Australian […]
Tasmania’s population puzzle: positive signs but how can we keep up the momentum
This opinion piece by Institute for the Study of Social Change research fellow Lisa Denny first appeared in the Mercury newspaper. IF we want to encourage more people to come to Tasmania, we first need to understand who is already coming here and why. Then we need to plan for their arrival. Since 2013 the […]