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Relative income poverty: levels, trends, context and issues
Author/editor: Bray, J Rob
Year published: 2024
There are many conceptions of what poverty means in contemporary western societies, and an array of ways of seeking to measure its incidence. Data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey is used here to consider these issues and analyse trends over the past 21 years...
Childcare in Australia: Historical trends in provision and Australian Government funding. A statistical compendium 1969-2022
Author/editor: Bray, R J
Year published: 2023
This note presents some data on Australian1 government expenditures on childcare and on the size of the formal childcare sector, in particular the segments of it which have been underpinned by Australian government financial support, directly and through subsidies paid to parents. While the initial...
Better data for the delivery of grant funded social services
Author/editor: Gray, M
Year published: 2022
The Australian government delivers social, educational and health services via a mix of direct government provision, contracting out arrangements and grant programs. The extent and importance of grant programs for the delivery of social services is not always appreciated. While it is difficult to...
Faith-based communities' responses to family and domestic violence
Author/editor: M Truong, M Sharif, D Pasalich, A Olsen, B Calabria & N Priest
Year published: 2020
Reduction in family and domestic violence (FDV) is a national and international priority. Under the Third Action Plan (2016–2019) of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022, National Priority Area 3 focuses on primary revention practices, and assisting...
Evaluation of the Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) program pilot
Author/editor: N Priest, O Alam, K Dunn, J Nelson, R Sharples, D Cronin, M Truong, K Francis, Y Paradies, P Curry & A Kavanagh
Year published: 2020
The Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) project is a major research study focused on understanding and addressing experiences and attitudes to racism and racial discrimination, and bystander responses to racism and racial discrimination in Australian schools.
The role of government: Australian and international views on what government should do
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M and Sheppard, J
Year published: 2019
This paper uses data from the 26th ANUPoll, conducted in August 2018, to analyse opinion about a range of roles that government could be responsible for, who should deliver services and who should pay for them. Australians generally think that the government has an important role to play in many...
The best of times, the worst of times, or indifferent times: views of Australians on job security and the future of work
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Gray, M, Sheppard, J & Taylor, M.
Year published: 2019
The Australian labour market is changing, with new occupations being created, as others become more precarious. Some of this change is being driven by technological advances; some is due to external factors. Although there has been a considerable amount of research documenting this change and...
Findings from the 2017 Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) student and staff surveys
Author/editor: Priest, N, Chong, S, Truong, M, Sharif, M, Dunn, K, Paradies, Y, Nelson, J, Alam, O, Ward, A & Kavanagh, A.
Year published: 2019
The Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) project is the first large-scale population-representative study in experiences and attitudes to racism and racial bullying, and on bystander responses to racism and racial discrimination among Australian students in government schools in New South Wales (NSW)...
The importance of reconciliation in education
Author/editor: Biddle, N. & Priest, N.
Year published: 2019
The aim of this paper is to summarise existing evidence and new analyses that shed light on the role of reconciliation in schools and early learning services in particular, and in education more broadly. We present the first analysis in Australia of the relationship between racism/discrimination...
Predicting the unpredicted: what longitudinal data can tell us about the 2019 Australian federal election
Author/editor: Biddle, N.
Year published: 2019
On 11 April 2019, the then Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove called a Federal election for 18 May. According to the Newspoll published on 7 April, the two-party preferred vote reported Labor with an election-winning lead of 52% to 48% over the Coalition, with almost identical primary votes for...
