Communities

Temporary migrant workers comprise 11 per cent of the Australian labour market, where they are employed in a variety of jobs, including everything from food service and hospitality roles to cleaning jobs and farm work, as well as a range of professional services.

The life insurance underwriting process had barely changed in a quarter of a century. But a world-leading innovation using the power of AI and data science transformed the experience.

Associate Professor Nick Hopwood and his collaborators are on a mission to raise awareness about tube-feeding to help families support children with complex feeding difficulties.

The jailing of First Nations women – at the fastest growing rate of any other group – is causing lasting damage to children, families and communities that’s hugely disproportionate to the relatively minor offences involved, UTS research has shown.

In 2011, Australia’s maternal death rate of 7.1 women per 100,000 was one of the lowest in the world. In neighbouring Papua New Guinea that same year, the rate was a staggering 129 times higher.

More than a decade after the Australian Government’s National Apology for the removal of Indigenous children from their families last century, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are still enduring separation from community and culture at an alarming rate.

Odyssey House NSW has provided care to people struggling with addiction for over 40 years. Now, for the first time, the impact of its well-known residential rehabilitation program has been confirmed by independent research.

Nathan Kettlewell is fascinated by risk – not in a should-I-put-it-all-on-red kind of way, but in his desire to explore what makes some people more open to taking risks while others are more cautious.

Business events contribute billions to economic activity in Australia, even on the simplest count of coffee cups and visitor beds. But a decade of study has drawn out their much wider economic and social benefits and, in turn, influenced the industry to seek deliberate – rather than incidental – impact for governments, industries and communities here and overseas.