This book demonstrated that basic lobbying skills, combined with a gracious, honest, optimistic and politely persistent character are key ingredients to lobbying success." - cover.
The project was based on the premise that interactions between people, housing, and neighbourhood are dynamic and best viewed as a complex, dynamic social-ecological system. Using social housing as a case study, the objectives of the project were to: Model vulnerability of housing and tenants to selected climate change impacts; Identify/evaluate engineering, behavioural and institutional adaptation options; Scope co-benefits of climate adaptation for human health and well-being; and Develop house typologies and climate analogues for national generalisations. This project was developed with the rationale that a multi-level focus on the cross-scale interactions between housing, residents, neighbourhood, and regional climate was vital for understanding the nature of climate change vulnerability and options for adaptation. The climate change hazards that were explored were increasing temperatures and more frequent and severe heatwaves in the context of heat-related health risks to housing occupants, and changes in radiation, humidity, and wind, in relation to material durability and service life of housing components and the implications for maintenance.
The structure of this report is as follows: Chapter 2 discusses the existing state redress schemes, and considers evidence the committee received in relation to state redress schemes for former children in care; and Chapter 3 provides an overview of other mechanisms for making discretionary payments or waiving debts, and considers issues raised in evidence about these compensation mechanisms." -- Scope of this report, p. 7.
This is the report of the inquiry into Australia's Judicial System and the Role of Judges with particular reference to; procedures for appointment and method of termination of judges; term of appointment, including the desirability of a compulsory retirement age, and the merit of full-time, part-time or other arrangements; jurisdictional issues, for example, the interface between the federal and state judicial system; and the judicial complaints handling system.
Terms of Reference: Access of justice with particular reference to: the ability of people to access legal representation, the adequacy of legal aid, the cost of delivering justice, measures to reduce the length and complexity of litigation and improve efficiency, alternative means of delivering justice, the adequacy of funding and resource arrangements for community legal centres and the ability of Indigenous people to access justice.
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