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Fitzroy, Thursday 12 September 2019 The Research & Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence is delighted to invite you to attend our September session of Brotherhood Talks: Why wi... Read more
Implementation, Mechanisms of Effect and Context of an Integrated Care Intervention for Vulnerable Families in Central Sydney Australia: A Research and Evaluation Protocol ABSTRACT Introduct... Read more
EXTRACT It is with great pleasure that we present Circular Head and Waratah-Wynyard Councils’ inaugural Community Health and Wellbeing Plan. This Community Health and Wellbeing Plan is a fiv... Read more
ABSTRACT In recent years, significant policy changes have been made to Australian welfare benefits for single parent families. These changes include the addition of work requirements and cha... Read more
EXTRACT Mental health services in Australia describes the activity and characteristics of Australia’s health care and social care services accessed by people with a mental illness. This web ... Read more
ABSTRACT Understanding the roots of human cooperation, a social phenomena embedded in pressing issues including climate change and social conflict, requires an interdisciplinary perspective.... Read more
ABSTRACT What is the relationship between theory and observation in the social sciences? This article advances a sociological reformulation of the “theory-ladenness” of data. Drawing on insi... Read more
EXTRACT Good leaders are change agents. Nothing around us stays static, so change leadership is a necessity. Change for the sake of change is not good leadership. Change requires a grounding... Read more
The persistence of welfare stigma: Does the passing of time and subsequent employment moderate the negative perceptions associated with unemployment benefit receipt? ABSTRACT People receivin... Read more
ABSTRACT This chapter provides a concise overview of the life and career of Jacques Derrida, exploring how his substantive philosophical writing could be relevant to a community development... Read more
ABSTRACT Despite considerable attention, helping agencies to work more effectively together is one of the most important contemporary challenges of public administration theory and practice.... Read more
ABSTRACT Public services operate increasingly through financialising policy technologies in which governments and other funders ‘invest’ in programmes and interventions that can measure and... Read more
EXTRACT Improving the quality and quantity of interactions between policymakers and academics continues to exercise contributors from all sides who wish to build more and better bridges betw... Read more
ABSTRACT In this article, we identify the unfolding unintended consequences which flow from one instance of policy layering in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).... Read more
