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Employment, Unemployment and Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform
Chair: Tony Eardley (SPRC)
Welfare reform in Australia: an evidence-based approach
Pamela Kinnear and Ken Oliver
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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
Why reform welfare?
Peter Saunders
Director of Social Policy Research, Centre for Independent Studies
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Spatial Dimensions of Social Policy
Special Research Workshop: New Research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Chair: Ian Winter (AHURI)
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
Low income renting and social well-being
Terry Burke, Kath Hulse, Liss Ralston
AHURI Swinburne-Monash Research Centres
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Housing, location and employment
Bruce Bradbury and Jenny Chalmers
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Income Distribution and Social Inequalities
Issues in income distribution
Chair: Peter Kriesler (School of Economics, UNSW)
Measuring income distribution - getting the numbers right
Leon Pietsch and Bob McColl
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Abstract
The spatial distribution of income change 1986-2001
Rob Bray
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Low-income before and after Housing Costs, Comparing Australia’s Regions
Peter Siminski and Peter Saunders
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract (Paper available for download)
The Work/Family Balance
Parenting and work
Chair: Kimberly Fisher (SPRC)
Balancing work and family: the experiences of low income parents
Anne Gregory, Matuna Mostafa and Ruth Ganley
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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 (Paper available for download)
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 (Paper available for download)
Health and Inclusion
Mental health
Chair: TBA
Changing mental health policy and services: lessons learnt 1993-98
Valerie Gerrand
Department of Politics, University of Melbourne
Abstract
Towards a social action/social model of disability methodology for studying mental health services
David Abelló
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract
Parent engagement, social disadvantage and school-based mental health interventions
Jan Nicholson
Centre for Health Research, Queensland University of Technology
Abstract
Citizenship and Inclusion
Youth, refugees and migration
Chair: Christie Robertson (SPRC)
The other side: young people, refugees and asylum seekers
Liz Skelton
StreetWize
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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
Retirement and Ageing
Veterans services, older working women and homelessness
Chair: Saba Waseem (SPRC)
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
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 (Paper available for download)
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 (Paper available for download)
Childhood and Social Inclusion
Paradigms of inclusion/exclusion
Chair: Jacqueline Tudball (SPRC)
The status of childhood and children’s social exclusion
Jan Mason
University of Western Sydney
Abstract
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
Youth and citizenship: looking at perceptions of citizenship among young people
Roberta Ryan
Elton Consulting
Abstract
Inclusion and Exclusion of Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Session 1
Chair: Karen Fisher (SPRC)
Evaluation of Indigenous employment policy: learning to balance contrasting realities
Kim Grey
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Indigenous research methodology
Sue Green
Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Overcoming the financial exclusion of Indigenous Australians
Siobhan McDonnell
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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