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Retirement and Ageing
Public policy on workforce ageing
Chair: Jane Mears (UWS)
Workforce ageing and public policy
Sol Encel
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract
The ageing workforce? Separating fact from hype
James Doughney
Work and Economic Policy Research Unit, Victoria University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Public policies for mid life transitions
Veronica Sheen
Council on the Ageing/National Seniors
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Employment, Unemployment and Welfare Reform
Gender and sole parenthood
Chair: Michael Bittman (SPRC)
Welfare states and women’s autonomy: a thought experiment
Sheila Shaver and Sharon Burke
University of Western Sydney and Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract
Encouraging employment: the UK’s ‘new deal for lone parents’
Jane Millar
Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, University of Bath
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Understanding of the income support system: a study of lone and couple mothers
Matthew Gray and Jennifer Renda
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Abstract
Citizenship and Inclusion
The underside of citizenship
Chair: Ruth Philips (University of Sydney)
Social inclusion
Sue Phillips
Community Development Officer - Neighbourhoods, City of Onkaparinga
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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
Down and out? Citizenship, exclusion and homeless persons
Tamara Walsh
Queensland University of Technology
Abstract
Open
Critical views of inclusion/exclusion and social capital
Chair: Margot Rawsthorne (SPRC)
What's up doc? On social exclusion and what's wrong with it
Rob Watts
RMIT Univeristy
Abstract
Social inclusion, social movements, and the characteristics of late modernity
Shaun Cannon
Deakin University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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 (Paper available for download)
Income Distribution and Social Inequalities
Women, children and tax transfers
Chair: Laura Adelman (Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK, and SPRC)
Gender, poverty and sharing within households
Trish Hill
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract
Taxing women: the politics of gender in the tax/transfer system
Deborah Brennan and Bettina Cass
University of Sydney
Abstract
The costs of children and living standards in Australian households: some new evidence
Rebecca Valenzuela
Department of Economics, Monash University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Inclusion and Exclusion of Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Session 3
Chair: Mary Haines (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
The role of discrimination and the exclusion of Indigenous people from the labour market
Boyd Hunter
Australian National University (ANU)
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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 (Paper available for download)
Social exclusion and remote Indigenous communities: is the 'third way' the right way?
Jane Robbins
School of Political & International Studies, Flinders University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Childhood and Social Inclusion
Policies for addressing child and family disadvantage
Chair: Susan Kelly (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
Intervening in early childhood to ameliorate social disadvantage
Lynn Kemp, Elizabeth Harris, Teresa Anderson
Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation
Abstract
Understanding the domain of child sexual assault, policies and practice
Rayleigh Joy
University of Queensland
Abstract
Families on the margins: strategies for building resilience
Anita Joinking
Mission Australia
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Organisation and Delivery of Community Services
Special Research Workshop: Community Services Futures - Linking the Labour Force with Service Quality
Chair: Karen Healy (University of Sydney)
Service users perspectives on the changing community services industry: what do services users want?
Robert Fitzgerald
Deputy NSW Ombudsman and Community Services Commission
The community services labour force as a policy issue: the changing demographics of the sector
Karen Healy and Gabrielle Meagher
University of Sydney
An employer perspective on the changing community services labour force
Jane Schwager
The Benevolent Society
Abstract
A union perspective on the changing community services labour force
Jim Piotrovski
Australian Services Union
Abstract
Professionals in a restructured human services industry
Carmel Laragy
University of Melbourne
Abstract
Employment, Unemployment and Welfare Reform
Employment barriers: services and attitudes
Chair: David Thompson (CEO, Jobs Australia)
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
How do Job Network employment services work to be socially inclusive?
Stephen Powrie
Department of Workplace and Employment Relations
Abstract
Attitudes and job search: what we know now
Joan ten Brummelaar, Mirella Wilson and Angela Southwell
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Abstract
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