Contributed Papers Program

Welfare reform in Australia: an evidence-based approach
Pamela Kinnear and Ken Oliver
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Building a simpler system to help jobless families and individuals: what are the consultations telling us?
David Thompson and David de Carvalho
Jobs Australia and National Catholic Education Commission
Abstract (and paper if available)

Why reform welfare?
Peter Saunders
Director of Social Policy Research, Centre for Independent Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

Housing costs, housing assistance and work disincentives: attitudes to work and employment among unemployed tenants
Kath Hulse and Bill Randolph
Institute of Social Research (Swinbourne University) and Urban Frontiers Program (University of Western Sydney)
Abstract (and paper if available)

Low income renting and social well-being
Terry Burke, Kath Hulse, Liss Ralston
AHURI Swinburne-Monash Research Centres
Abstract (and paper if available)

Housing, location and employment
Bruce Bradbury and Jenny Chalmers
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Measuring income distribution - getting the numbers right
Leon Pietsch and Bob McColl
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Abstract (and paper if available)

The spatial distribution of income change 1986-2001
Rob Bray
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Low-income before and after Housing Costs, Comparing Australia’s Regions
Peter Siminski and Peter Saunders
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Balancing work and family: the experiences of low income parents
Anne Gregory, Matuna Mostafa and Ruth Ganley
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

The impact of long working hours on employed fathers and their families
Lixia Qu, Ruth Weston, Matthew Gray and David Stanton
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

How do they find the time? A time-diary analysis of how working parents preserve their time with children.
Lyn Craig
SPRC and School of Social Science and Policy, UNSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

Changing mental health policy and services: lessons learnt 1993-98
Valerie Gerrand
Department of Politics, University of Melbourne
Abstract (and paper if available)

Towards a social action/social model of disability methodology for studying mental health services
David Abelló
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Parent engagement, social disadvantage and school-based mental health interventions
Jan Nicholson
Centre for Health Research, Queensland University of Technology
Abstract (and paper if available)

The other side: young people, refugees and asylum seekers
Liz Skelton
StreetWize
Abstract (and paper if available)

Inclusion of immigrants in the political process: a critical analysis of immigrants’ representation in the Swedish democratically elected assemblies
Paula Rodrigo Blomqvist
Gothenburg University, Sweden
Abstract (and paper if available)

They won’t push you out the back and forget you
Natasha Posner, Sharon Burke, Elisabeth Emrys, Justin McNab, Gawaine Powell-Davies and Saba Waseem
Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for General Practice Integration Studies, UNSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

A longer working life for Australian women of the baby boom generation? Women’s voices and the policy implications of an ageing female workforce
Monika Merkes
La Trobe University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Older homeless people: pathways into and out of homelessness
Alan Morris, Bruce Judd, Kay Kavanagh and Yuvisthi Naidoo
School of Social Science and Policy, UNSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

The status of childhood and children’s social exclusion
Jan Mason
University of Western Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

Conceptions of children’s well-being: dominant themes and their implications for the ‘social inclusion’ of children
Toby Fattore
NSW Commission for Children and Young People
Abstract (and paper if available)

Youth and citizenship: looking at perceptions of citizenship among young people
Roberta Ryan
Elton Consulting
Abstract (and paper if available)

Evaluation of Indigenous employment policy: learning to balance contrasting realities
Kim Grey
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Abstract (and paper if available)

Indigenous research methodology
Sue Green
Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre, UNSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

Overcoming the financial exclusion of Indigenous Australians
Siobhan McDonnell
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

Building social inclusion: what can partnerships for urban renewal achieve?
Karen Gardner and Cris Fitzpatrick
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and Bridgewater Gagebrook Urban Renewal Program
Abstract (and paper if available)

Facilitating rural community sustainability? Local organisational networks and the governance of space
Jo Baraket
University of Melbourne
Abstract (and paper if available)

Beyond the local: using social networks as policy resource for building resilient communities
K. Healy, A. Hampshire, and L. Ayres
Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Sociology (University of Sydney)
Abstract (and paper if available)

Sustainability and local policy and planning responses
Cath Smith and Carolyn Atkins
Victorian Council of Social Service
Abstract (and paper if available)

Is it worth working now? Income incentives and disincentives for working mothers under Australia’s new tax system
Matthew Toohey and Rachel Lloyd
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
Abstract (and paper if available)

Understanding the factors associated with financial stress in Australian households
Robert Breunig and Deborah Cobb-Clark
Australian National University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Work and family: issues and risks across the life course
David Hazelhurst
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Retirement intentions of mature age workers
Gary Knox
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Grandparents supporting work/family options: Is their role unrecognized and undervalued?
Joy Goodfellow and Judy Laverty
University of Western Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

Case management in the workfare state
Catherine McDonald and Greg Marston
University of Queensland
Abstract (and paper if available)

Breaching and social exclusion: the lived experience of disadvantaged young people
Lorraine Kerr and Harry Savelsberg
Deakin University and University of South Australia
Abstract (and paper if available)

Uneasy relations: Centrelink breaching patterns and Job Network participation reports
Susan Lackner
Centre for Applied Social Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

They keep changing the goalposts: inclusion, tokenism and intention in Aboriginal policy approaches
Gaynor Macdonald
Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

A new model of inclusion? Centrelink's development of income support service delivery for remote Indigenous communities
Will Sanders
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

A collision course for the 21st century: social inclusion and the politics of Maori self determination
Louise Humpage
RMIT University
Abstract (and paper if available)

FAST tracking social inclusion by bringing together families, schools and support agencies: a case study
Sabina Leitmann and Fran Crawford
Curtin University of Technology
Abstract (and paper if available)

Refit: a social justice and environmental pilot project
Trish Benson
Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

A healthier approach to crime prevention in Australia
Carol O'Donnell
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

Why we should care about the daily activity schedules of adult carers
Kimberly Fisher, Michael Bittman, Cathy Thomson and Patricia Hill
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

On tenterhooks with little sleep: the issues faced by carers of children with AD(H)D
Tim Marchant and Toni Payne
Carers' NSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

How does the Australian child benefit package compare internationally?
Jonathan Bradshaw, Naomi Finch, and Tony Eardley
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, and SPRC
Abstract (and paper if available)

Australian inequality since world war II
Andrew Leigh
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social inclusion and exclusion in Denmark 1976 to 2000
Joergen Elm Larsen
University of Copenhagen
Abstract (and paper if available)

The findings from an inquiry into children and young people who have no one to turn to
Stephen Robertson
NSW Commission for Children and Young People
Abstract (and paper if available)

Some children have rights: exclusion, detention and the paradox of children's rights in Australia
Jonathan Cartledge
University of Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social Deprivation and Psychological Distress in East London Adolescents: The RELACHS study (Research with East London Adolescents: Community Health Survey)
M. Haines, S. Stansfield, K. Bhui, R, Booy, J. Head, S. Taylor and S. Hillier
Institute of Community Heath Sciences, Barts, London; Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London; University College, London; and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

Workforce ageing and public policy
Sol Encel
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

The ageing workforce? Separating fact from hype
James Doughney
Work and Economic Policy Research Unit, Victoria University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Public policies for mid life transitions
Veronica Sheen
Council on the Ageing/National Seniors
Abstract (and paper if available)

Welfare states and women’s autonomy: a thought experiment
Sheila Shaver and Sharon Burke
University of Western Sydney and Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Encouraging employment: the UK’s ‘new deal for lone parents’
Jane Millar
Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath
Abstract (and paper if available)

Understanding of the income support system: a study of lone and couple mothers
Matthew Gray and Jennifer Renda
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social inclusion
Sue Phillips
Community Development Officer - Neighbourhoods, City of Onkaparinga
Abstract (and paper if available)

Ignoring the dark side: social inclusion and social capital in Australia
Lou Wilson
Centre for Labour Research / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Adelaide
Abstract (and paper if available)

Down and out? Citizenship, exclusion and homeless persons
Tamara Walsh
Queensland University of Technology
Abstract (and paper if available)

What's up doc? On social exclusion and what's wrong with it
Rob Watts
RMIT Univeristy
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social inclusion, social movements, and the characteristics of late modernity
Shaun Cannon
Deakin University
Abstract (and paper if available)

From family to fellowship: defining multiple forms of bonding social capital and pathways through values and time use analysis
Roger Patulny
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Gender, poverty and sharing within households
Trish Hill
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Taxing women: the politics of gender in the tax/transfer system
Deborah Brennan and Bettina Cass
University of Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

The costs of children and living standards in Australian households: some new evidence
Rebecca Valenzuela
Department of Economics, Monash University
Abstract (and paper if available)

The role of discrimination and the exclusion of Indigenous people from the labour market
Boyd Hunter
Australian National University (ANU)
Abstract (and paper if available)

The Swan Nyungar Sports Education Program: a school based approach to social inclusion for Aboriginal Students and their families
Rob Simons
The Smith Family
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social exclusion and remote Indigenous communities: is the 'third way' the right way?
Jane Robbins
School of Political & International Studies, Flinders University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Intervening in early childhood to ameliorate social disadvantage
Lynn Kemp, Elizabeth Harris, Teresa Anderson
Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation
Abstract (and paper if available)

Understanding the domain of child sexual assault, policies and practice
Rayleigh Joy
University of Queensland
Abstract (and paper if available)

Families on the margins: strategies for building resilience
Anita Joinking
Mission Australia
Abstract (and paper if available)

Service users perspectives on the changing community services industry: what do services users want?
Robert Fitzgerald
Deputy NSW Ombudsman and Community Services Commission
Abstract (and paper if available)

The community services labour force as a policy issue: the changing demographics of the sector
Karen Healy and Gabrielle Meagher
University of Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

An employer perspective on the changing community services labour force
Jane Schwager
The Benevolent Society
Abstract (and paper if available)

A union perspective on the changing community services labour force
Jim Piotrovski
Australian Services Union
Abstract (and paper if available)

Professionals in a restructured human services industry
Carmel Laragy
University of Melbourne
Abstract (and paper if available)

How the mental health services system can act as a barrier to people with a psychiatric disability accessing employment
Vanessa Rose and Elizabeth Harris
Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation, and Division of Population Health, South West Sydney Area Health Service
Abstract (and paper if available)

How do Job Network employment services work to be socially inclusive?
Stephen Powrie
Department of Workplace and Employment Relations
Abstract (and paper if available)

Attitudes and job search: what we know now
Joan ten Brummelaar, Mirella Wilson and Angela Southwell
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Abstract (and paper if available)

Overview of HILDA and its potential for social policy research
David Johnson
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

How does parenting affect the transition from income support into the paid labour market for couples?
Jenny Chalmers
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Two to tango? The importance of partnerships and partners’ views in shaping fertility aspirations and expectations
Ruth Weston, Lixia Qu, Matthew Gray and Robyn Parker
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

Who are the new two earner households?
Mark Western and Janeen Baxter
School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Abstract (and paper if available)

Contracting: the impact on non-government organisations
Margot Rawsthorne
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Threat to core values or positive force for reform? The application of commercial and business models among small to medium third sector organisations in western Australia
Colin Penter and Paul Rajan
Matrix Consulting Group
Abstract (and paper if available)

Sustainable enterprises: changing organisational forms in the community services sector
Pamela Spall
School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social inclusion: a service delivery dilemma
Gordon McCormick
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Housing, social exclusion and the emergence of place focused policy in New South Wales.
Bill Randolph
University of Western Sydney (Urban Frontiers Programs)
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social inclusion and spatial inequality in the City - the Danish case
John Andersen
Roskilde University, Denmark
Abstract (and paper if available)

Regional employment growth and the persistence of regional unemployment disparities
William Mitchell and Ellen Carlson
Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
Abstract (and paper if available)

Much obliged: disadvantaged job seekers' experiences of active labour market policy
Stephen Ziguras, Gavin Dufty & Mark Considine
Brotherhood of St Laurence, St Vincent de Paul Society and Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne
Abstract (and paper if available)

Centrelink, mutual obligation and individualised service delivery
Cosmo Howard
Australian National University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Preparing for what? The administration of Youth Allowance activity agreements
Sally Jope
Brotherhood of St Laurence
Abstract (and paper if available)

Stakeholders on the periphery of citizenship in NGO/corporate engagement
Ruth Phillips
Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Abstract (and paper if available)

Forming an inclusive community through pragmatic solidarity and social policy
Adam Mitchell
Catholic Welfare Australia
Abstract (and paper if available)

Volunteering and active citizenship
Jeni Warburton
School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Queensland
Abstract (and paper if available)

Models for poverty research: understanding the university student experience
Judith Bessant
Social Policy and Advocacy Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Raising a teenager on $85 a week - the case for a renewed policy focus on the costs of older children and young people
Peter Davidson
Australian Council of Social Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

The implications for citizenship and inclusion in the new HSC
David Saltmarsh and Camilla Couch
Australian Centre for Educational Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social exclusion in childhood: why and how it should be measured? Some thoughts from Britain
Laura Adelman
Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK
Abstract (and paper if available)

Significant absence: considerations of child labour in contemporary Australia
Maree Murray
The Smith Family
Abstract (and paper if available)

Reproducing exclusion or inclusion? The socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australian children
Anne Daly and Diane Smith
University of Canberra and Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

Clients of alcohol and other drug treatment services
Gail Weaving
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Abstract (and paper if available)

Evidence based policy and programs for perpetrators of relationship violence: exploring the research issues for Australian social policy
Michael Wearing
School of Social Work, UNSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

Citizenship and inclusion: drug users, democracy and voices from the summit
Kirsty Hammet
HIV, HCV & Related Programs, Communicable Disease Control Branch, Population Health, Strategic Planning & Population Health, Department of Human Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Employment, unemployment and welfare reform
Glenn Redmayne
Disability Council of NSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

Cultures of disability and deafness: rethinking links between the disability movement and the deaf community
Sally Robinson and Robert Adam
Disability Studies and Research Institute and the Deaf Society of NSW
Abstract (and paper if available)

Counting the costs of blindness: lessons for a cost of disability allowance
Maryanne Diamond
Blind Citizens Australia
Abstract (and paper if available)

Jobless households in Australia: evidence from HILDA?
Rosanna Scutella and Mark Wooden
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

The right to work versus the right to income
Sally Cowling, Bill Mitchell and Martin Watts
Centre of Full Employment and Equity
Abstract (and paper if available)

Life chances and parents’ employment
Janet Taylor
Brotherhood of St Laurence
Abstract (and paper if available)

Jigsaw - where the pieces fit? Building participation through civic partnerships
Rick Moloney and Elayne Strahan
Centrelink
Abstract (and paper if available)

Positive pathways
Kay Fisher, Monika Kruesmann, Justine Gibbings, Edmond Hsu, Tom Morrison and Heather Evert
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (and paper if available)

Social capital at work: how family, friends and civic ties relate to labour market outcomes
Wendy Stone, Matthew Gray and Jody Hughes
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

Infertility, social exclusion and social policy
Maureen Baker
University of Auckland
Abstract (and paper if available)

Lack of familiarity breeds contempt? How difference limits bridging social capital
Jennifer Wilkinson and Michael Bittman
Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney and SPRC
Abstract (and paper if available)

Some whens, hows and whys of shared care: What separated parents who spend equal time with their children say about shared parenting
Bruce Smyth, Catherine Caruana and Anna Ferro
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract (and paper if available)

Commonwealth Rent Assistance: modelling of current effectiveness
Hazel Blunden
National Shelter, ACOSS
Abstract (and paper if available)

The regional impact of Commonwealth Rent Assistance
Anthony King, Tony Melhuish and Elizabeth Taylor
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
Abstract (and paper if available)

How adequate are Australian social security benefits? A geographical assessment
Paul Henman
University of Macquarie
Abstract (and paper if available)

Analysing the General Social Survey
Nicholas Biddle
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Abstract (and paper if available)

Approaches to analysing the Indigenous Social Survey
Lujuan Chen
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Abstract (and paper if available)

Informing social policy: community asset mapping
June Wangmann
New South Wales Centre for Parenting Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

From social exclusion to social inclusion: de-institutionalisation of alternative care in three Chinese cities
Xiaoyuan Shang, Xiaoming Wu and Haiyan Li
Social Policy Research Centre, University of Canterbury and Beijing Normal University
Abstract (and paper if available)

A case study of South Korea: consequences of more funding from the government
Kyungja Jung and Mikyung Lee
Visiting Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW and Director Korean Sexual Violence Relief Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Families First Area Reviews
Julie Young*, Anne Marie Dwyer*, Karen Fisher#, Cathy Thomson# and Sonia Hoffman#
* NSW Cabinet Office, #SPRC
Abstract (and paper if available)

NSW health policy and family violence
Susan Evans
Wentworth Area Health Service
Abstract (and paper if available)

The hospital treatment choices of older people
Sara Graham
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

Living in a citadel: the participation of mentally ill war veterans in Australian society
Kristy Muir
The Smith Family
Abstract (and paper if available)

The ‘new multilateralism’, global social policy, and management: The role of international NGOs
Gaby Ramia
Department of Management, Monash University
Abstract (and paper if available)

The economic impact of gambling in NSW
Ian Manning and Craig Shepherd
National Institute of Economic and Industry Research
Abstract (and paper if available)

Hot-wiring community
Denise Meredyth
Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University
Abstract (and paper if available)

Equipped for life - a very private public issue - policy and equipment in the lives of children and families
Lynne Dowling
University of Newcastle
Abstract (and paper if available)

Civil rights or specialist services: recommendations for sector reform in NSW
Michael Bleasdale

Abstract (and paper if available)

The new international classification of disability: its relevance to people’s lives
Ros Madden
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Abstract (and paper if available)

Creativity+community=Vvtality: the mental and physical health benefits of participation in artistic programs and inclusive processes for people with disabilities
Susan Maley
Artistic Program Director, Arts in Action
Abstract (and paper if available)

Fatherlessness in single parent families and the solutions
John Flanagan
Fairness in Child Support
Abstract (and paper if available)

Factors associated with a healthy life past the age of 80
John Stevens and Peter Baume
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Abstract (and paper if available)

Employment officers’ views on the operation of Job Network in Wagga Wagga
Manohar Pawar
Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University
Abstract (and paper if available)

The impact of changes to the within-household distribution of income support on household consumption patterns
Bruce Bradbury
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (and paper if available)

A Theory of Assent: a working paper from the project Enhancing Interaction in group homes.
David Butt & Alison Moore
Centre for Language in Social Life
Abstract (and paper if available)

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