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Work and Family
Employment and gender equity
Chair: Peter Whiteford (OECD)
Balancing paid work and family: where have we come from and where are we going?
Pru Goward
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Abstract
Back to the home? The discourse of flexible workplace policies
Kathy Edwards
Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Abstract
Discrimination against workers with family responsibilities: manifestations, understandings and prospects for change
Sara Charlesworth
Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University
Abstract
Indigenous Australians
Past and present policies towards Indigenous Australians
Chair: kylie valentine (Social Policy Research Centre)
Understanding contemporary Indigenous policy by revisiting the past
Sue Green
Director, Nura Gili (Indigenous Programs @ UNSW)
Abstract
Aboriginal people and political representation at the national level
Heidi Norman
University of Technology, Sydney
Abstract
Health benefits of education in Australia: Indigenous/non-Indigenous comparisons
Nicholas Biddle
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Organisation and Delivery of Community Services
Economic evaluation and evidence-based policy
Chair: Mary Haines (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
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)
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Benefit assessments in child welfare
Nicola Robinson
NSW Department of Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Spatial Dimensions of Social Policy
Inclusion and exclusion through housing and community development policies
Chair: Kelly Sutherland (Social Policy Research Centre)
Community economic development and public housing estates in New South Wales
Melanie Hughes
Ronald Henderson Research Foundation
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Refugees and regional settlement: win-win?
Janet Taylor
Brotherhood of St Laurence
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Childhood and Child Wellbeing
Supporting disadvantaged children
Chair: Christiane Purcal (Social Policy Research Centre)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
The Stronger Families and Communities Strategy - policy and evaluation
Evan Lewis and Ilan Katz
Department of Family and Community Services and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Retirement and Ageing
Housing and incomes and social isolation in old age
Chair: Patricia Reeve (COTA)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Social isolation among war veterans
Sol Encel
Social Policy Research Centre and School of Sociology, UNSW
Abstract
New Age Pensioners:Trends in Wealth
Hazel Lim-Applegate, Peter Mclean, Phil Lindenmayer and Ben Wallace
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Citizenship and Disability
Rights and services
Chair: Rosemary Kayess (DSaRI)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Policy debates and practice in individualised disability services
Carmel Laragy and Patsie Frawley
School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University
Abstract
Referring people with disabilities to private accommodation facilities
Karen Fisher and Sally Robinson
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, and Disability Studies and Research Institute
Abstract
Income Distribution and Social Inequalities
Parenting and inequality
Chair: Cathy Thomson (Social Policy Research Centre)
Socio-economic outcomes for young mothers in Australia
Bruce Bradbury
Social Policy Research Centre
Abstract
Women’s and men’s incomes following childbearing
Marty Grace
Victoria University, Melbourne
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Low income parents: factors that promote self-reliant families
Vic Pearse
Department of Family and Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Employment, Unemployment and Welfare Reform
Regulating income support recipients
Chair: Sherman Chan (Social Policy Research Centre)
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
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Risky business: understanding social security benefit fraud
Greg Marston
School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences, University of Queensland
Abstract
For love or money: volunteering and unemployed people
Marc Levy
University of Melbourne
Abstract (Paper available for download)
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