Recent research
Publication type: Policy
Title: From secrecy to dignity: trust and policy implications of shifting attitudes to privacy
Author(s): Henschke, A,Young, R,Gould, M,Smith, H
Excerpt:
Key points:
- The public typically trusts governments to protect personal data more than they trust the private sector. Social media companies are among the least trusted.
- In response to changes in technologies, attitudes towards privacy are changing. A traditional focus on secrecy is giving way to a focus on control of information and maintaining dignity.
- People are generally happy to share information, and for organisations to do more with the information they hold, provided this occurs in a way that maintains trust.
Date of publication: 2019
Publication type: Early release
Author(s): Bhat, Mohammad Younus and Bhatt, Mohammad Sultan
Excerpt:
Biodiversity needs our attention because humans receive a wide range of direct and indirect benefits. Valuation of biodiversity is important to establish the importance of use and non‐use values of biological resources and cost of ignoring them. Against this backdrop, the aim of this study is to capture the recreational value of the national park biodiversity while employing travel cost method.
Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Early release
Title: Understanding the spatial disparities and vulnerability of population aging in China
Author(s): Cheng, Yang; Gao, Siyao; Li, Shuai; Zhang, Yuchao and Rosenberg, Mark
Excerpt:
Understanding the regional pattern of population aging in China enables rational policy making to address the challenges of inequity in social welfare and care resources among the east–central–west regions and rural–urban areas of China. This study uses census data in 2000 and 2010, and aging population ratios, annual increase rates, and spatial autocorrelation analysis to examine spatial disparities in population aging in China. The results show that the population is more aged and aging more rapidly in rural areas than in urban areas.
Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Journal Article
Author(s): David Brewster
Excerpt:
There is a growing understanding among maritime security practitioners of the importance of Maritime Domain Awareness(MDA) as an essential enabler of maritime security. This article describes Australia’s efforts to develop an integrated national MDA system that brings together data and intelligence from a range of military and civil agencies and commercial sources to which a risk-based assessment is applied. This has become an essential tool to combat transnational maritime security threats in the Indian Ocean and elsewhere.
Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Early release
Author(s): Tambunan, Tulus T. H.
Excerpt:
The literature on the impact of the economic crisis on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and how they deal with it is still limited. Focusing on the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis and the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, this study aims to fill this gap. There are two key questions: how these two economic crises have affected MSMEs and what were then their crisis mitigation (CM) measures. To answer these questions, this study reviews experiences in several countries in Southeast Asia with the impacts of these two crises on MSMEs and their responses to the crises.
Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Early release
Title: Three turns in the evolution of China–Russia presidential pseudo‐alliance
Author(s): Baev, Pavel K.
Excerpt:
The unique quality of relations between Russia and China cannot be captured by the term “partnership,” but the development of high‐level ties does not signify a process of alliance building. The two states stand, in geopolitical terms, back‐to‐back to each other, as Russia gives priority attention to the confrontation on its Western theatre and China focuses of security matters in East Asia and trade relations with the United States. The China–Russia presidential pseudo‐alliance has experienced at least three major turns in its development since the middle of this decade.
Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Journal Article
Title: Australia and China: understanding the reality check
Author(s): Rory Medcalf
Excerpt:
Where are Australia-China relations headed?
After national controversies over foreign influence and interference, Australia has changed the way it engages with China. Professor Rory Medcalf takes us through the causes and consequences of this reality check, and dispels seven myths in the national debate on China. He examines how Canberra can move relations with Beijing forward under the new normal that has been established.
Date of publication: 2018
Publication type: Early release
Title: The Belt and Road Initiative: what is in it for China?
Author(s): Johnston, Lauren A.
Excerpt:
China’s outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical capital investment, all had a role in China’s diminished competitiveness in low‐wage manufactured exports and the fading of the related growth model. In that context, the 2013 launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) took place in two stages in two developing countries, Kazakhstan and Indonesia.
Date of publication: 2018
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