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THE PAST DECADE has seen progress in advancing gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment through social protection. However, significant challenges persist. Coverage gaps for women... Read more
November 2019 THIS issue of Brotherhood Update announces research on older aged care workers, and a new wave of data in our social exclusion monitor. Policy submissions about the inadequacy... Read more
UNDERSTANDING the New Charter of Aged Care Rights: what it means for Consumers and Service Providers ON 1 July 2019 , the Australian Government introduced a new and simpler Charter of Aged C... Read more
ABSTRACT Significantly reducing building sector greenhouse gas emissions is necessary to meet state and local climate stabilization goals. Initiatives to decarbonize home and building energy... Read more
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to geographical perspectives on energy justice by arguing for the concept of “spaces of energy well-being.” We build on the concepts of capabilities, home, an... Read more
SUMMARY Background: Indigenous Australian children are twice as likely to score poorly on developmental outcomes at age 5 years than their non-Indigenous peers. Indigenous children are also... Read more
ABSTRACT One-ness towards common good – revisiting our starting point – was the topic Miriam Subirana addressed in her WAIC 2019 keynote speech. The power of Mother Earth is very... Read more
SUMMARY Is politics strictly a means to an end—something that serves only the interests of individuals and the various associations of civil society such as families and charities? Or is a s... Read more
ABSTRACT Precarity of employment is not only socio-economic consequence of global capitalism. It is also a threat to social and economic stability of live of population. The genesis of preca... Read more
