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Policy & Law Reform Archive

The following archived papers may be downloaded or printed in PDF format. The reports are ordered in reverse chronological order.

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Policy & Law Reform Archive

Download A Better Lease On Life (2010)
National Shelter

A National Shelter report providing an outline of a reform agenda to improve tenants' rights frameworks across Australia (April 2010).
Download Accommodating Everyone (2009)
Equal Opportunity Commission

An inquiry into whether persons from diverse backgrounds and Aboriginal people are being discriminated against in the private housing rental market (June 2009)
Download Tenancy Issues for Humanitarian Entrants (2008)
Tenants Advice Service, Shelter & Edmund Rice Centre
A Joint Community Sector Report : 'Gaps In Housing & Support Services for Humanitarian Entrants'.
Download Why Won't Tenants Exercise Their Rights? (2006)
Tenants Advice Service
The realities of the current rental market in Perth. Report by the Tenants Advice Service (October 2006).
Download Housing Strategy WA : Response (2006)
Tenants Advice Service
Response of the Tenants Advice Service to Discussion Draft of the Housing Strategy WA. (February 2006)
Download Boarding and Lodging Houses (2005)
WA Tenancy Network & Tenants Advice Service

A study of the market, law and options for reform in Western Australia (December 2005).
Download Finding A Place (2004)
Equal Opportunity Commission

Report by the Equal Opportunity Commission into the existence of discriminatory practices in relation to the provision of public housing and related services to aboriginal People in WA (December 2004).
Download A Roof Over Our Heads (2003)
Auditor General of WA

Report by the Auditor General of WA into the maintenance of public housing (October 2003).
Download Journey to Justice (2003)
Tenants Advice Service

Tenants Advice Service submission to the Equal Opportunity Commission’s inquiry into the provision of public housing to Indigenous people in WA (May 2003).
Download Submission to the RTA Review (2002)
Tenants Advice Service

Final submission by TAS to the review of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 (December 2002).