Family Matters article Jun 2015
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Children in Australia
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Family Matters article Jun 2015
A public health approach to enhancing safe and supportive family environments for children
Building on the growing consensus that communities are best served by a public health approach to child protection, this article demonstrates that it is possible to identify family environments at a population level that could be the subject of public health interventions.
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Family Matters article Mar 2016
Parent-only care in Australia
Family Matters article on parent-only care
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Family Matters article Apr 2017
Conference Keynote. Research to recommendations
Commissioner and Justice Jennifer Coate describes the aims and work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Family Matters article May 2018
A population approach to the prevention of child maltreatment
This article sets out how the prevention of child maltreatment can be enhanced by a multi-level population-based approach in providing evidence- based parenting and family support.
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Webinar Jul 2020
Findings from the Families in Australia Survey: Life during Covid-19
A Families in Focus webinar
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Research programs
Family law and family separation
Through an extensive and long-standing research program AIFS has examined a range of separation and family law-related issues.
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Submission May 2015
Examination of children affected by family and domestic violence
Submission to National Children’s Commissioner based on research conducted by AIFS and ANROWS
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Submission Sep 2018
Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
Submission of findings relevant to the Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
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Media release Dec 2020
The good, the bad and the lonely: how coronavirus changed Australian family life
Using findings from the first wave of the Families in Australia Survey, this article looks at support in families and social networks during COVID.