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Spatial Dimensions of Social Policy
Localities and communities
Chair: Bill Randolph (University of Western Sydney)
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
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Facilitating rural community sustainability? Local organisational networks and the governance of space
Jo Baraket
University of Melbourne
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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)
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Sustainability and local policy and planning responses
Cath Smith and Carolyn Atkins
Victorian Council of Social Service
Abstract (Paper available for download)
The Work/Family Balance
Financial incentives, stress and risk in working families
Chair: Bruce Bradbury (SPRC)
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 (Paper available for download)
Understanding the factors associated with financial stress in Australian households
Robert Breunig and Deborah Cobb-Clark
Australian National University
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Work and family: issues and risks across the life course
David Hazelhurst
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Retirement and Ageing
Mature age employment and participation
Chair: Sara Graham (SPRC)
Retirement intentions of mature age workers
Gary Knox
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Grandparents supporting work/family options: Is their role unrecognized and undervalued?
Joy Goodfellow and Judy Laverty
University of Western Sydney
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Employment, Unemployment and Welfare Reform
Case management and breaching
Chair: Janet Taylor (Brotherhood of St Laurence)
Case management in the workfare state
Catherine McDonald and Greg Marston
University of Queensland
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Breaching and social exclusion: the lived experience of disadvantaged young people
Lorraine Kerr and Harry Savelsberg
Deakin University and University of South Australia
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Uneasy relations: Centrelink breaching patterns and Job Network participation reports
Susan Lackner
Centre for Applied Social Research
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Inclusion and Exclusion of Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Session 2
Chair: Sue Green (Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre, UNSW)
They keep changing the goalposts: inclusion, tokenism and intention in Aboriginal policy approaches
Gaynor Macdonald
Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
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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 (Paper available for download)
A collision course for the 21st century: social inclusion and the politics of Maori self determination
Louise Humpage
RMIT University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Organisation and Delivery of Community Services
Models of community support and education
Chair: Natasha Posner (SPRC)
FAST tracking social inclusion by bringing together families, schools and support agencies: a case study
Sabina Leitmann and Fran Crawford
Curtin University of Technology
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Refit: a social justice and environmental pilot project
Trish Benson
Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Abstract (Paper available for download)
A healthier approach to crime prevention in Australia
Carol O'Donnell
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Health and Inclusion
The health of carers and young adults
Chair: Jacqueline Tudball (SPRC)
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 (Paper available for download)
On tenterhooks with little sleep: the issues faced by carers of children with AD(H)D
Tim Marchant and Toni Payne
Carers' NSW
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Income Distribution and Social Inequalities
Australian transfers and inequality in comparative context
Chair: Maureen Baker (University of Auckland)
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 (Paper available for download)
Australian inequality since world war II
Andrew Leigh
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Social inclusion and exclusion in Denmark 1976 to 2000
Joergen Elm Larsen
University of Copenhagen
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Childhood and Social Inclusion
Rights and deprivation
Chair: Jan Mason (University of Western Sydney)
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
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Some children have rights: exclusion, detention and the paradox of children's rights in Australia
Jonathan Cartledge
University of Sydney
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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
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