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PROFILE OF CHILDREN AGED 0 – 8 YEARS – OCTOBER 2015
WESTIR is frequently asked for statistics about the children who live in Greater Western Sydney. The requests come from Government Departments, Cou...Read more -
JOURNEY TO WORK 2011 – 2015
This report is an update of the Occasional Paper No. 6 – March 2011 “Who works where and how do they get there? – GWS Journey to Work 2006”...Read more -
VISITORS TO THE POWERHOUSE MUSEUM IN 2015 – 2015
WESTIR requested data on visitor numbers from the Powerhouse Museum. Not all visitors to the Powerhouse supply their postcode so it was not possibl...Read more -
ABORIGINAL FAMILY PLANNING CIRCLE – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – 2015
In 2015, WESTIR Ltd was asked to undertake an evaluation of the Aboriginal Family Planning Circle, a community-based program that has been running ...Read more -
COLLECTIVE IMPACT – JUNE 2014
Collective impact has been defined as “the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a spec...Read more -
A GLIMPSE INTO GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS – MAY 2014
Refugee Resettlement Services (RRSs) are key players in advancing Australia’s refugee resettlement. For decades now these services have been ope...Read more -
PHOTOGRAPHY METHODOLOGY IN COMMUNITY RESEARCH – JANUARY 2014
This paper reflects on photography as a research methodology, particularly in the context of social research in the community sector.Read more -
CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC, AND MIGRANT DIVERSITY IN GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY – MARCH 2012
In Australia, global processes of migration not only impact on the national scale, but the very local spaces people inhabit – neighbourhoods, sho...Read more -
LISTENING@LAKEMBA – LAKEMBA CONSULTATIONS, HOUSEHOLD AND ORGANISATION SURVEY – NOVEMBER 2011
Canterbury City Community Centre (CCCC) started the "Listening@Lakemba" campaign after receiving Community Builders funding from the Department of ...Read more -
WHO WORKS WHERE & HOW DO THEY GET THERE? – MARCH 2011
Occasional Paper No. 6 details the Journey to Work patterns of the people who live and work in Greater Western Sydney (GWS). A total of 779,908 jou...Read more