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ABSTRACT As part of the Cape York Welfare Reform Trial (CYWRT), which has been running in the remote Aboriginal towns of Aurukun, Hope Vale, Mossman Gorge and Coen since 2008, Family Respons... Read more
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the two world wars on welfare legislation in 16 western countries. We use Poisson regressions to test our hypothesis that war was a catalyst of w... Read more
EXTRACT Understanding social aspects of parental well-being is vital because parents’ welfare has implications not only for the parents themselves but also for child development, fertility,... Read more
ABSTRACT The uptake and implementation of universal health coverage (UHC) is primarily a political, rather than a technical, exercise, with contested ideas and diverse stakeholders capable o... Read more
EXTRACT A joint initiative of ACOSS, the COSS Network and Community Sector Banking This Demand for Community Services Snapshot 2019 is a report of demand for community services in 2019 based... Read more
ABSTRACT This study reviews all the academic contributions to research on social impact bonds (SIBs). It responds to the need for clarification across and within the various perspectives use... Read more
ABSTRACT This article looks at how welfare conditionality is delivered at the street level. It argues that the street-level delivery of welfare conditionality is structured by policies, the... Read more
ABSTRACT This article examines data from the Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive and the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset on protest events, levels of welfare generosity (the ext... Read more
ABSTRACT In this essay, I reflect on the process of conducting research into an Australian welfare reform experiment that targets Indigenous people: the trial of a cashless debit card. Selec... Read more
EXTRACT The media, as everyone knows, has a strong impact on public opinion: What we read or watch influences how we think. Our cultural values and internalized norms determine how we percei... Read more
ABSTRACT Can we improve upon an income-driven approach for assisting poor single mothers? This study evaluates the No Limits program (Illinois) by applying Amatya Sen’s capabilities approach... Read more
EXTRACT The Place-based Evaluation Framework has been designed as a flexible user guide for evaluating place-based delivery approaches in Australia. It is designed for communities and facili... Read more
ABSTRACT Governments are increasingly establishing innovation labs to enhance public problemsolving. Despite the speed at which these new units are being established, they haveonly recently... Read more
Location: Carlton Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020 This event is presented in partnership with the Economic and Social Participation Research Initiative and the Melbourne Research Alliance to... Read more
ABSTRACT In 2016, there were almost 1 000 000 lone parent families in Australia, with 81.8 per cent headed by a single mother. The rate of poverty among lone parent families was 32 per cent,... Read more
