Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Using novel nation-wide social security data combined with machine learning tools, we develop predictive models of income support receipt intensities for any payment enrolee in the Australian social security system between 2014 and 2018. We show that off-the-shelf machine learning…
(Western) Australian Legacies of British Slavery
Webinar/Online
The celebration of British abolition has overshadowed memories of the country’s long prior history as the world’s leading slave-trading nation. In August 1833 British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape. In place of slavery the negotiated settlement…
Moral Framings in the Australian Parliamentary Debate on Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients
Seminar
Abstract Around the world an expanding array of behavioural conditions are being attached to social security payments. This paper offers empirical evidence of the various moral frames used in the welfare conditionality debate, by both its supporters and detractors. We systematically analyse the…
'Now is the psychological moment'–Earle Page and the imagining of Australia
Lecture
Earle Page (1880–1961) was Australia’s 11th Prime Minister and served for only 19 days after the death of Joseph Lyons. He was also a surgeon, Country Party leader and treasurer. Over decades, he made determined efforts to seize ‘the psychological moment’ and pursue his vision of a decentralised…
Humanitarian migrant integration in Australia: a multidimensional approach
Seminar
Australia operates an annual resettlement intake of humanitarian migrants, with humanitarian migrant visas comprising on average around 10% of the total number of permanent migration visas issued each year. The Australian government has a comprehensive set of policies around the settlement and…
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Mapping its digital / tech future
Webinar/Online
The pandemic has had a far-reaching effect on the world. Nowhere is this more visible than in China's relations with the world, where the pandemic has become a supercharged bell weather for the state of Beijing's relations. This is equally true within Central Asia where the pandemic has accelerated…
HERE I AM | Democracy and Demography
Panel discussion
Democracy and Demography: How to Win An Election and the future of US with Dr Chris Wallace and Dr Liz Allen About this Event Join us at Kambri for a thought-provoking conversation with two of Australia’s leading academic analysts Chris Wallace & Liz Allen, whose recent publications…