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Building an integrated support system for young people’s sexual health and wellbeing: Strengths, challenges and future directions for the non-government sector
No full textThis report outlines the role of non-government organisations in supporting young people’s sexual health and wellbeing in Australia. We conducted a desktop review of 61 organisations delivering 501 distinct programs, services or resources related to young people’s sexual health, alongside in-depth interviews with 41 individuals working across the field. Our findings show that non-government organisations play a central role in supporting young people’s sexual health and wellbeing. They deliver a wide range of programs and services, from school-based, parent and community education to clinical care, health promotion, advocacy, capacity building and resource development. However, this work takes place in a challenging landscape. Responsibility for young people’s sexual health is dispersed across multiple sectors and government departments, with no national strategy or framework to set direction, define objectives or establish accountability. This potentially results in gaps in services and programs or missed opportunities for greater efficiency. In addition, funding for sexual health programs is often short term and project based. This limits capacity for long-term planning, workforce development and relationship building, all of which are vital for effective service and program delivery. Non-government organisations bring essential expertise, relationships and skills to the field of sexual health, yet without coordinated strategy, long-term investment and recognition of their role, their capacity to deliver sustained impact is constrained. Addressing these issues will require stronger governance, clearer accountability and a long-term vision that recognises young people’s sexual health as integral to overall health and wellbeing.</p
<i>Newly Positive: Experiences of HIV seroconversion and diagnosis – 2025</i>
No full textThis report presents findings up to June 2025 from the Newly Positive study. The study is investigating experiences of seroconversion, diagnosis, and treatment uptake among people living in Australia who have been recently diagnosed with HIV. Data for the Newly Positive study are collected via semi-structured in-depth interviews. The research was approved by Latrobe University Human Ethics Committee HEC23423.</p
Mapping the psychiatric circuit: Mental health law and psychiatric carcerality in the ‘post-institutional’ era
No full textThis paper theorises psychiatric carcerality after the shift in the locus of control from incarceration in large-scale institutions to psychiatric treatment in ‘the community’. It draws on the findings of an Australian study into experiences of Community Treatment Orders, civil orders under mental health legislation authoring forced psychiatric treatment in the home. It conceptualises Community Treatment Orders as a node within a broader psychiatric circuit, in which patients constructed as ‘risky’ are governed through enlistment into routinised, coerced movements across the circuit. I explore how psychiatric carcerality in the ‘post-institutional’ era operates through both immobility and movement across the psychiatric circuit, and the circuit's role as a threshold to other carceral systems and spaces.</p
Final version testing data fed into models updated 23 July 2024
No full textThis dataset accompanies the manuscript "New models for classifying heterogeneous cover types in wetlands of the Greater Melbourne region". It is the testing data that was used to validate models of wetland cover types across the Greater Melbourne region.</p
Final binomial models updated 23 July 2024
No full textThis file accompanies the manuscript "New models for classifying heterogeneous cover types in wetlands of the Greater Melbourne region". It contains the models of wetland cover types across the Greater Melbourne region.</p
Mean Landsat reflectance composite image of Melbourne region
No full textThis file accompanies the manuscript "New models for classifying heterogeneous cover types in wetlands of the Greater Melbourne region". It is a geotif containing mean values for long term (1986 to 2019) Landsat reflectance data across the Greater Melbourne region.</p
Emerging roles of nanoparticles in sustainable agriculture
No full textNanoparticles have the potential to improve crop yield through precise and efficient agricultural practices, as well as by providing targeted nutrient delivery and mitigating environmental stresses (Wei et al., 2024). Accordingly, the global investment in nanotechnology has been considerably enhanced in recent years, which further highlights its wider acceptability and applications in every domain of human life (Hazarika et al., 2022). In the agricultural sector, various nanomaterial-based formulations have been developed, such as nano-sulfur, nano-urea, and nano-herbicides, among others, that boost agricultural production to feed the global population. This special issue aimed to publish emerging research on the nanoparticle-mediated growth promotion and stress mitigation in plants. A total of 18 manuscripts on various aspects of phytonanotechnology were published in this special issue, comprising 12 research articles. Additionally, this special issue also published a series of comprehensive reviews that not only enhanced our understanding of how nanobiotechnology can help in increasing plant productivity but also provided valuable insights on how nanobiotechnology can be used for waste management. Moreover, a study by Joshi et al. (2025) reported the development of magnetic nanoparticles from cobalt oxide (CoO) and nickel oxide (NiO) for detection and monitoring applications. This study showed that the interaction of these nanoparticles with plant tissue significantly alters their magnetic properties, suggesting opportunities for regulating growth via an external magnetic field (Joshi et al., 2025).</p
At the Intersection of LGBTQA+ Identity and Residential Location: Insights on Mental Health and Suicidality in Australia
No full textSuicide is a global public health concern. Within Australia, suicide is also the leading cause of death among young adults (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW], 2023), with extant research showing that rates of suicidality are disproportionately higher within communities that experience systemic marginalisation (AIHW, 2023). Those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, queer, asexual, and/or those with another diverse sexuality or gender (LGBTQA+) are particularly at risk for high suicidality. Compared with population-level estimates from general community members in Australia (e.g., 3.3% reporting recent suicidal ideation, and 0.3% reporting a recent suicide attempt; Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], 2022-2022), 41.9% of LGBTQA+ adults have reported recent suicidal ideation, and 5.2% have reported a recent suicide attempt (Hill et al., 2020). These disproportionately higher rates of suicidality among LGBTQA+ community members in Australia call for an urgent need to intervene against the factors that contribute to this risk.A key element of consideration when implementing and advocating for suicide prevention interventions is the understanding that LGBTQA+ communities comprise of individuals that vary in their lived experiences. That is, while both gender and sexuality can vary and intersect across all members of LGBTQA+ communities, so too can other demographic factors (e.g., ethnicity, cultural background, age, socioeconomic status, geographical contexts and regions), yet these important intersecting factors have seldom been emphasised in both research and policy settings. As such, the current data report aims to address this gap by providing insights on mental health and suicidality across LGBTQA+ communities in Australia, with a particular focus on exploring differences across LGBTQA+ adults and young people living in suburban or regional/rural locations. </p
Fintech, Technology Spillover and TFP of Commercial Banks: Evidence From China
No full textThis article derives the theoretical relationship between Fintech and total factor productivity (TFP). In the empirical test, it calculates the TFP of 110 commercial banks in China from 2013 to 2020 using the non-oriented DEA-Malmquist index model. It then estimates the effects of Fintech on TFP using a dynamic panel SYSGMM model. The results show that Fintech has a direct positive spillover effect on the TFP of commercial banks. A portion of the intermediary effect existing in the growth of online banking transactions can indirectly promote the improvement of TFP. The Fintech spillover is heterogeneous, varying with different shareholding backgrounds and economic regions. City commercial banks, joint-stock commercial banks, and commercial banks in the eastern region have relatively strong technology absorption capacity. This article offers some suggestions for commercial banks to apply Fintech to improve their TFP.</p
A More Dangerous Place: Asia during the Trump Presidency
No full textThis issue is a retrospective of the United States’ Asia policy during the Trump Administration’s first term. It brings together experts from La Trobe University and the wider academic community to discuss the implications of President Donald Trump’s 2016 U.S. election win for Asian states and societies. This is a pivotal time in Asia, and the Trump Presidency has provided some unexpected changes to the balance of power in the region. Every country and territory is affected by the actions of the United States, and the ability to anticipate, adapt and flourish in these challenging times are a key strategy of every government. What this collection ultimately reveals is a messy mix of contradictions, uncertainty, incoherence, and opportunism informing U.S.-Asia relations.</p