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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY – JULY 2022
The international education sector plays a vital role in Australia's economy, contributing $37.6 billion and supporting 240,000 jobs in 2019. The c...Read more -
BEATING THE HEAT: MAPPING PUBLIC SWIMMING ACCESS IN GWS – JULY 2022
As summer temperatures continue to soar in Greater Western Sydney – a trend expected to worsen with climate change – residents are navigating i...Read more -
THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY AND LEGAL SERVICES COVERING GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY IN ADDRESSING INSTITUTIONAL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: POST-ROYAL COMMISSION TO PRESENT – DECEMBER 2021
Child sexual abuse is a complex social problem. In Australia, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (the Royal Co...Read more -
PENRITH DISABILITY SNAPSHOT – OCTOBER 2021
In early 2021, WESTIR was engaged by Penrith City Council to provide a detailed demographic overview of people living with disability in the Penrit...Read more -
PARITY ARTICLE OCTOBER 2021: RECOGNISING THE ABUSE AND TRAUMA HISTORIES OF CLIENTS IN EARLY INTERVENTION HOMELESS INITIATIVES — INSIGHTS FROM GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY AND BEYOND
In 2021, WESTIR Ltd conducted an extensive research project exploring the role of community and not-for-profit legal services covering Greater West...Read more -
COVID-19 PANDEMIC 2020: RAMIFICATIONS FOR THE 2021 ABS CENSUS – DECEMBER 2020
It is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic will leave a dark stain across the entire world for quite a while. It is still early days, but data is alrea...Read more -
A GUIDE TO ETHICS IN NOT-FOR-PROFIT RESEARCH AND EVALUATION – NOVEMBER 2020
Research and evaluation has increasingly been undertaken in the not-for-profit (NFP) sector in recent decades. This is mainly due to funding bodies...Read more -
RESILIENCE THROUGH DISASTERS: LCSA MEMBERS SURVEY REPORT – NOVEMBER 2020
Communities and community-based organisations confronted immense disruption in 2019 and 2020 as multiple disasters ravaged NSW, from ongoing drough...Read more -
MEASURING AGRICULTURAL LAND USE ON SYDNEY’S FRINGE – SEPTEMBER 2020
Cities around the world have grown rapidly in recent times, with urbanisation occurring on the fringe of metropolitan regions and leading to the lo...Read more -
COVID-19 PANDEMIC 2020: EMPLOYMENT – JULY 2020
COVID-19 has overshadowed the year 2020 for all Australians at a time when many households have been recovering from the effects of drought, bushfi...Read more
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