Papers Available for Download (sorted by first author)

(Contributed)
Job (in)security and mental health: an analysis using waves 1 and 2 of the HILDA Survey
Marc Adam and Paul Flatau
Murdoch University
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(Contributed)
The ageing population: who will provide the care?
Julie Austin and Tim Marchant
Carers Australia and Carers NSW
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Family planning, declining fertility and the convergence of family policies
Maureen Baker
Department of Sociology, University of Auckland
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Health benefits of education in Australia: Indigenous/non-Indigenous comparisons
Nicholas Biddle
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Examining potential risk factors, pathways and processes associated with childhood injury in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Tamara Blakemore
Department of Family and Community Services
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Skill, migration and gender in Australia: a comparison with Canada
Anna Boucher
Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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His money or our money: financial abuse of women in intimate partner relationships
Elizabeth Branigan and Marty Grace
Council of Single Mothers and Their Children and Victoria University
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A longitudinal view of Australian aged care policy: a socio-clinical perspective
Tony Broe
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
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Modelling Spatial Distribution of Disability in Older Persons and the Need for Aged Care in New South Wales
Laurie Brown, Sharyn Lymer, Mandy Yap, Mohan Singh and Ann Harding
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra
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Factors contributing to young people’s experiences of economic disadvantage
Kaye Brown
Department of Family and Community Services
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(Contributed)
Evolving patterns of unemployment protection expenditures: Australia and the OECD
Vera Brusentsev and Wayne Vroman
University of Delaware and The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C
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The 'social rights' of citizenship and the Australian welfare state: changes in income support for people with disabilities 1945-2004
Scott Burrows
School of Management, Marketing and Employment Relations, University of Wollongong
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(Contributed)
Indicators of financial exclusion
Sherman Chan
Social Policy Research Centre and School of Social Science & Policy, UNSW
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(Contributed)
Spatial inequality in Australia in the 1990s
Duangkamon Chotikapanich, Paul Flatau and Rachel Lloyd
Monash University, Murdoch University and University of Canberra
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Supported residential facilities: supporting residents to stay or move on?
Alice Clark
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Challenging the ‘new accountability’? Users’ perspectives on evaluation in family support
Natasha Cortis
PhD student, Political Economy, University of Sydney, and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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(Contributed)
Towards a classification framework for social enterprises
Denise Crossan, Jim Bell, Pat Ibbotson
School of International Business and School of Business, Retail and Financial Services, University of Ulster
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(Contributed)
Moving to work, moving from work: housing, travel, cost and key workers in Sydney
Michael Darcy, Judy Stubbs, Julia Perry and Hazel Blunden
Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, and Shelter NSW
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(Contributed)
Welfare reform: a primer
Peter Davidson
Australian Council of Social Service
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(Contributed)
Not just any job - the right job in a sustainable community
Sheridan Dudley
Job Futures
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(Forum)
Disability and Work: inclusion or coercion
The Hon. Peter Dutton MP
Minister for Workforce Participation Federal Member for Dickson
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(Contributed)
The impact of breaching and financial penalties on income support recipients
Tony Eardley, Kate Norris, Jude Brown and Margot Rawsthorne
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, University of New England and University of Sydney
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(Contributed)
An analysis of children’s paid and unpaid work in New South Wales
Toby Fattore
NSW Commission for Children and Young People
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(Contributed)
Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing options
Paul Flatau, Natalie McGrath, Lesley Cooper, Donna Edwards, Carol Lacroix, Marc Adam, Dora Marinova, Andrew Beer, Amanda Hart, Mary Morris, Cathrine Traee and Selina Tually
Murdoch University
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(Plenary)
Our children, ourselves: rethinking the economics of family policy
Nancy Folbre
Department of Economics, University of Massachuetts
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(Contributed)
Childhood adversity and poverty in adult life
John Frederick
Department of Social Work, Monash University
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Women’s and men’s incomes following childbearing
Marty Grace
Victoria University, Melbourne
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Engaging with Indigenous Australians: principles, practices and learnings
Anne Hampshire and Jane Lawton
Mission Australia
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Hearing from young homeless Australians
Anne Hampshire and Denise Chadwick
Mission Australia
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(Contributed)
Some general issues from the aged care review
Warren Hogan
University of Technology Sydney
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Inequality and the knowledge economy - running to stand still?
John Hudson
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
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Community economic development and public housing estates in New South Wales
Melanie Hughes
Ronald Henderson Research Foundation
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(Contributed)
Use of family friendly work arrangements: differences between lone and couple parents
Jody Hughes and Matthew Gray
Australian Institute of Family Studies and Australian National University
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"Not welfare on wheels": relationships between transport, accessibility and well-being
Anne Hurni
University of Western Sydney
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(Contributed)
Housing policies for older Australians: looking back, looking forward
Andrew Jones and Cheryl Tilse
School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University of Queensland
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(Contributed)
Families’ experiences following homelessness: the implications for children’s wellbeing and development.
Violet Kolar
Hanover Welfare Services
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(Contributed)
Communities for Children - a new approach to policy and program development and delivery
Marie Leech and Evan Lewis
Mission Australia and Department of Family and Community Services
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(Contributed)
For love or money: volunteering and unemployed people
Marc Levy
University of Melbourne
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(Contributed)
Impacts of demographic and economic changes on measured income inequality
Yongping Li
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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(Contributed)
New Age Pensioners:Trends in Wealth
Hazel Lim-Applegate, Peter Mclean, Phil Lindenmayer and Ben Wallace
Department of Family and Community Services
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(Contributed)
Disability data: looking back, looking forward
Ros Madden, Tim Beard and Xingyan Wen
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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(Contributed)
Petrol bowsers for washing kids’ faces: a new era in Indigenous policy
Ruth McCausland
Jumbunna Indigenous Research Unit, University of Technology, Sydney
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(Contributed)
Responding to globalisation: comparing social policy in Australia and New Zealand
Alison McClelland and Susan St John
La Trobe University and Auckland University
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(Contributed)
Looking forward: the world of paid care workers
Jane Mears
Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, University of Western Sydney
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(Contributed)
Individualising social and political participation - reconstituting youth in policy making
Rose Melville
School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University of Queensland
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Information, e-government and opportunity: a public housing estate online
Denise Meredyth, Liza Hopkins and Scott Ewing
Swinburne University of Technology
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Examining the irreversibility of long-term unemployment in Australia
William Mitchell and Anthea Bill
Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle
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(Forum)
A Place in the Sun? Social policy and the environment in Australian cities
Gary Moore
Drector, NSW Council of Social Service
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(Contributed)
What matters? Policy driven evidence, Indigenous government and the Harvard Project
Martin Mowbray
Charles Darwin University
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Towards equity? Social inequality, education and post-school plans - some policy implications
Maree Murray and Adrian Beavis
The Smith Family
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Policies to combat poverty and social exclusion: does the South have anything to offer the North?
Ann Nevile
Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University
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(Contributed)
Low income parents: factors that promote self-reliant families
Vic Pearse
Department of Family and Community Services
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(Contributed)
Evidence of exclusion amongst PSP participants
Daniel Perkins
Brotherhood of St Laurence
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How does this help again? Economic evaluation and homelessness policy
Sarah Pinkney and Scott Ewing
Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology on behalf of the National Coordination and Development Committee of the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP)
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Productive diversity: which companies are active and why?
Joanne Pyke
Institute of Community Engagement and Policy Alternatives
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Assisted reproductive technology: the fallback option?
Lixia Qu and Ruth Weston
Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Governing the social: rules, control or trust?
Tim Reddel
Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian, Queensland
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Is there ever enough evidence? The benefits and limits of evidence-based public health policy: the case of the Victorian Children’s Health and Wellbeing Project
Mark Rix and Sheila Matete
Centre for Health Service Development, University of Wollongong
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Taking stock of social capital: where is social policy heading ?
Winsome Roberts
University of Melbourne
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Beyond bonding? Voluntary associations social capital and gender: a case study of women’s participation in context
Christie Robertson
School of Social Science and Policy and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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(Contributed)
Benefit assessments in child welfare
Nicola Robinson
NSW Department of Community Services
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So what does constitute a strong community?
Roberta Ryan and Sharon Burke
Elton Consulting
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(Contributed)
The impact of disability on living standards and attitudes: reviewing the evidence
Peter Saunders
Social Policy Research Centre
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(Contributed)
The transition to self-reliance in welfare in the 21st century
Peter Saunders
Social Research Director, Centre for Independent Studies
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(Contributed)
Wage inequalities among full-time workers
Peter Saunders
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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(Plenary)
Researching social policy: trends, tragedies and triumphs
Peter Saunders
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
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(Contributed)
The Swan Nyungar Sports Education Program: best practice strategies used by staff in building respectful relationships between staff and students
Rob Simons
The Smith Family
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The young and the restful - the effects of recreational choices and demographic factors on children's participation in sport.
Mike Stratton, Lewis Conn and Tammie Smallacombe
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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(Plenary)
Can child poverty be abolished? Promises and policies in the UK
Holly Sutherland
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
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(Contributed)
Whose agency? Whose structure? Social background, social mobility and the transition from school to work
Jessica Sutherland
The Smith Family and National Institute of Labour Studies
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(Contributed)
Refugees and regional settlement: win-win?
Janet Taylor
Brotherhood of St Laurence
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(Contributed)
Comparative study of partners’ fertility desires and intentions: a HILDA Survey based analysis
Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis
Department of Family and Community Services
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(Contributed)
Reconceptualising prosperity
Charles Waldegrave
Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit, New Zealand
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(Contributed)
The welfare expenditure debate: economic myths of the left and the right revisited
Peter Whiteford
OECD
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(Contributed)
Are occupational choices affecting housing choices?
Judy Yates
University of Sydney
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