... Beira Tide Table March, 1913, Nova Capital Da Australia, Reducção De Tarifas Nos Caminhos De Ferro Da Rhodesia, Politica Colonial A Orientação Do Novo Ministro, Governor-General' ...
1913 - Gale Group | NCCO EuropeAfrica
The role of the state in work and family policies continues to attract attention. This article analyses Australia's changing workplace relations regime, specifically policies relating to flexibility rights and maternity and parental leave, to illustrate the course of the state's exit and entry in matters of employment relations and human resource management. These policies are not only selected for their topicality, but also because they are closely related to the way in which the state, through ...
Tópico(s): Employment and Welfare Studies
2011 - Routledge | The International Journal of Human Resource Management
This paper explores the manner in which two hospices – one located in Denmark and one in Australia – negotiate and determine the boundaries of volunteer workers vis-à-vis paid staff. A comparative case study approach was used to juxtapose organisations with similar activity fields located in different welfare state systems, i.e. a social democratic welfare state and a liberal welfare state. This study involved non-participant observation of volunteers at work and unstructured interviews with volunteers, ...
Tópico(s): Employment and Welfare Studies
2014 - Wiley | Health & Social Care in the Community
As media continue to converge—for instance, Internet radio and TV, Internet gaming, books on compact discs—the core analytic components of media literacy become all the more important for cross-media applications. The principles of narrative and text-image analysis can be transferred to new media such as CDs or Internet sites that require the same kinds of critical scrutiny as magazines, newspapers, or TV. That is, we need to evaluate narrative structures, language, and images in use across media; ...
Tópico(s): Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
1999 - Wiley | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
Structural shifts in labour markets and in households are impacting on the capacity of households and families to deal with risk. In Australia the post-Federation and post-war social settlement, based on the gendered assumptions underpinning the male breadwinner/female carer model, is no longer viable in an era of increasingly precarious employment, diverse family forms and deepening inequalities. Labour market and industrial relations changes, when combined with major demographic shifts such as ...
Tópico(s): Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
2002 - SAGE Publishing | Critical Social Policy
Unemployment policy is currently informed by notions of labour force flexibility, workfare and mutual obligation. Things have not always been this way. Over this century there have been profound shifts in the way in which unemployment and government responsibilities have been conceptualized. Using the notion of ‘welfare rationalities’ to guide the discussion, this paper records the nature of these changes. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which economic objectives intersect with the social ...
Tópico(s): Social Policy and Reform Studies
2001 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of sociology
This study suggests that the debate over the nature of policy is far from resolved. The extent to which the extremes of the debate about the role of the state in policy, about interpretations about power in policy process and about the differential nature of fine‐grained examinations of policy at the local level versus larger scale theorizing, affect interpretation are questioned. Based on a case study of the implementation of a policy dealing with homeless student in four Victorian, Australia, ...
Tópico(s): Social Work Education and Practice
1997 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Education Policy
Objectives and importance: Paramedics have high rates of occupational injury and fatality. The objective of this study is to describe their specific risks of violence-related injury.This retrospective cohort study is an examination of retrospective data provided by Safe Work Australia (SWA).An examination of the 300 cases of serious claims of injury related to assaults, violence, harassment and bullying that occurred among individuals identified as ambulance officers and paramedics in Australia from ...
Tópico(s): Policing Practices and Perceptions
2018 - Sax Institute | Public Health Research & Practice
This article explores and theorizes anti-Black racist discourses that shape the ways in which the Australian media and other mainstream Australian institutions talk about and view Black Africans. It argues that the long-standing racist trope of synonymizing Blackness with criminality is widespread in Australia. Thus, among other things, this paper theorizes the Australian media narrative of 'African gangs' who are supposedly causing havoc in the State of Victoria, Australia. It argues that the January ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Refugees, and Integration
2018 - Taylor & Francis | African and Black Diaspora An International Journal
Despite global attention to worker rights violations experienced by temporary migrants, we lack a clear evidence base to understand the extent and nature of these abuses. This article presents findings from a pilot of a Migrant Worker Rights Database. This pilot measures rights abuses of former Temporary Work (Skilled) visa (subclass 457) entrants to Australia from 1996 to 2016. This visa was the key formal temporary visa into Australia over this period. The pilot codes all available court cases that ...
Tópico(s): International Labor and Employment Law
2018 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Industrial Relations
This article explores the impact of COVID-19 on the Australian higher education system. It analyses how the contradictions of Australian higher education, driven by expanding participation in the higher education system within the context of contained public funding, have been politically managed through regulatory regimes that link the public university with the neoliberal capitalist economy. Such modes of state intervention have been dependent on financialized instruments such as income contingent ...
Tópico(s): Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Globalizations
This article explores how prison staff in Australia view their work and how their work is viewed by others, by applying a theoretical framework of ‘dirty work’. ‘Dirty work’ is a social construction that refers to tasks that are ‘physically, socially or morally tainted’ ( Ashforth and Kreiner, 1999 ; Hughes, 1958 ) and this article will apply this concept to prison staff in Australia for the first time. The discussion is based on qualitative research in seven different Australian prisons, ranging from high ...
Tópico(s): Homelessness and Social Issues
2021 - SAGE Publishing | Punishment & Society
Tópico(s): Higher Education and Employability
2021 - Springer Nature | The Australian Educational Researcher
Abstract This paper examines the issue of same-sex marriage in Australia, from both legal and social perspectives. First, it places the marriage debate in its Australian context, noting the ways in which same-sex relationships have been recognised in Australia other than through marriage. Second, it assesses some of the legal constraints on recognition of same-sex marriage, in particular the current statutory definition and the allocation of power over marriage to the federal Parliament in Australia' ...
Tópico(s): Reproductive Health and Technologies
2007 - Routledge | The International Journal of Human Rights
Mutual obligation – the idea that those who receive assistance in times of need should be required to ‘give something back’ – is the driving force behind the current social security reform agenda in Australia. After more than a decade of intense reform, the Australian Government is considering a reform blueprint based on the recommendations of a Welfare Reform Reference Group. These include proposals to increase mutual obligation requirements on the unemployed and that sole parents and disability support ...
Tópico(s): Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
2002 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Social Policy
"This article investigates some of the factors that are associated with welfare dependency among immigrants in Australia. It examines the role of factors such as gender, age, migration category, birthplace, period of arrival and educational background in explaining immigrants' dependence on government pensions and benefits as their main source of income." The author finds that there are "significant differences in welfare dependency...by birthplace and migration category even after controlling for ...
Tópico(s): Social Policy and Reform Studies
1994 - SAGE Publishing | International Migration Review
Australia's participation in the Great war (1914-18) came at a significant human cost. Of the 324,000 Australian soldiers who took to the field, 59,342 were killed (18 per cent) and 152,171 wounded (46 per cent).1 This is said to be proportionally the highest rate of battle casualties experienced by any forces of the British Empire in that conflict. The injuries suffered by those wounded during the Great War had an impact on the human body and mind on a scale that had not been experienced before; 'bombs & ...
Tópico(s): History of Medical Practice
2004 - | Health and History
AbstractThe widely held view is that effective action on climate change requires commitment by national governments to international agreements. Developed nations like Canada and Australia continue to fall short in their commitments to emissions reduction targets established under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Australia refused to ratify its Kyoto commitments until 2008 and Canada withdrew its commitment in 2011. Subnational governments in both countries have been active in developing policy responses ...
Tópico(s): Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
2014 - Routledge | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice
Australia is one of the largest coal exporting nations in the world and its economy is underpinned by the availability of cheap fossil fuels. It is well documented that it has failed to act on climate change, and that the conservative Howard government was particularly hostile to international action. It is also well documented that 2007 was an agenda‐setting period when climate change was elevated to national prominence. This paper details and interrogates the ultimately successful Labor national ...
Tópico(s): Social Policy and Reform Studies
2013 - Wiley | Australian Journal of Politics & History
This paper critically examines the ‘It's OK to be White’ Senate motion made by Australian far-right politician Pauline Hanson in 2018. Deliberately innocuous, the ‘It's OK to be white’ slogan was designed by online white supremacist groups with the intention of ‘triggering liberals’ and provoking outrage. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, I demonstrate that Hanson's ‘It's OK to be white’ motion was an act of calculated ambivalence, which served to address multiple audiences simultaneously. I argue ...
Tópico(s): Social Media and Politics
2021 - Routledge | Critical Discourse Studies
There is a new maturity about the health and human rights movement as it endeavours to integrate human rights into health policies at the national and international levels. In addition to the traditional human rights techniques, such as naming and shaming, the movement is also using new approaches such as indicators, benchmarks and impact assessments. However, it is confronted with a range of major obstacles and this article focuses on two of them: the inadequate engagement within the health and ...
Tópico(s): International Human Rights and Reproductive Law
2008 - Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited | Journal of law and medicine
Various electronic voting channels have been introduced across a range of countries. In some countries these new channels have proved uncontroversial, while in others, they remain contentious and have even been abandoned. Relatively little is known about whether and why voters have confidence in new and old voting channels. Australia provides a useful case for researching these issues, since it is a mature democracy in which election processes and outcomes are widely accepted. The 2013 Australian ...
Tópico(s): E-Government and Public Services
2016 - Routledge | Australian Journal of Political Science
Australia has sought to contain social welfare expenditures through more stringent targeting of benefits, increased scrutiny of applicants, and by requiring more vigorous job search and training activities. The changes implemented since the Labor Party assumed office in 1983 represent the most sweeping restructuring of the Australian welfare state in 50 years. They mark a shift from an individualistic, rights-based view of welfare state entitlements to one stressing reciprocal obligations. This ...
Tópico(s): Labor Movements and Unions
1994 - Western Michigan University | The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Greg Marston, Catherine McDonald,
A key thrust of labour market policy in Australia and many other western countries is that long‐term unemployed people lack the personal motivation to engage proactively and successfully in the search for paid employment. In this paper we argue that the implementation of what are experienced as paternal workfare programs are counter‐productive to achieving the official policy goal of improving self‐efficacy and gaining paid employment. The empirical discussion presented in the paper is based on ...
Tópico(s): Social Policy and Reform Studies
2008 - Wiley | Australian Journal of Social Issues
Abstract For nearly 12 years from 1996, the Australian government pursued a neoliberal industrial relations agenda, seeking to break with structures based on collective bargaining and trade unions. In the name of choice and deregulation, this agenda involved unique levels of state intervention and prescription — and anti‐unionism. In the last round of legislative change, the 2005 laws badged as Work Choices, the government overreached itself and in 2007 was defeated in a general election. As in the ...
Tópico(s): Employment and Welfare Studies
2008 - Wiley | British Journal of Industrial Relations
Margaret Ayre, John Mackenzie,
Water planning processes in Australia have struggled to account for Indigenous interests and rights in water, including the use of Indigenous knowledge in water management. In exploring the role of Indigenous knowledge in government-led water planning processes, how might tensions between Western scientific and Indigenous knowledges be lessened? Drawing on two case studies from northern Australia we examine how Indigenous knowledge is represented and managed as a different social knowledge to that ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Studies and Ecology
2012 - Routledge | Local Environment
Health policy changes intended to achieve cost control in OECD countries run the risk of reintroducing financial barriers to health care. However, although the problems faced are similar, different countries are dealing with the situation in different ways. For example, Canada and Australia, which share many similarities, have taken quite different policy paths in the last decade: Canada has preserved universal access, whereas Australian policy is promoting a two-tier system through the provision ...
Tópico(s): Global Health Care Issues
1998 - Duke University Press | Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
The diffusion of telemedicine services in Australia over the last four years has been uneven. Some of the major barriers to the adoption of telemedicine relate to the nature of the industry, including its immaturity, the limited telecommunications infrastructure, the lack of appropriate dialogue between vendors and buyers about solutions required, and the lack of partnerships in the industry. Remuneration is only one barrier. There are, of course, other substantial organizational, financial and ...
Tópico(s): Regional Development and Policy
1999 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
Pam Alldred, Miriam David, Pat Smith,
This paper is based on a study of 17 secondary schools in an inner city area of England deemed to have very high levels of teenage pregnancies. The New Labour Government argued that academic achievements and effective labour market participation are inhibited by early or ‘premature’ parenthood (Social Exclusion Unit 1999). It therefore set in place policies to address these issues effectively in schools, through a revised school achievement agenda and a revised Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) ...
Tópico(s): Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
2003 - University of South Australia | Journal of educational enquiry