Family Matters article Mar 1996
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Family Matters article Jun 1996
Are Australian workplaces family friendly?
This paper suggests that it is still not easy, in 1995, for the more than a quarter of Australia's workforce to gain the additional flexibility which may be required to carry out the dual tasks of care and paid work
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Behind the paid working hours of single mothers
This article looks at data from in-depth interviews with seven single mothers to reveal the additional labour they might need to do simply to keep the relationship between home and paid work intact.
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Family Matters article Jun 2001
Family and work
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Submission Apr 2005
Submission on balancing work and family
Submission focuses on recently analysed data that can assist policy makers in their task of developing supports for parents balancing work and family.
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Family Matters article Sep 2010
Do Australian teenagers contribute to household work?
Family Matters article on teenagers and household work
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Family Matters article Mar 2011
Persistent work-family strain among Australian mothers
Family Matters article on persistent work-family strain among Australian mothers
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Family Matters article Apr 2011
Desperately seeking security
Family Matters article on UK family policy
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Family Matters article Apr 2011
Unfit mothers ... unjust practices?
This article discusses the wealth of material on adoption in Australia, which include historical records, analyses of historical practices, case studies, expert opinions, personal testimony provided to two parliamentary inquiries, but the limited empirical research on the issue of past-adoption practices and its impact on those involved.
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Family Matters article Apr 2011
Who's really time poor?
In his keynote presentation to the 11th AIFS Conference, 2010, the author proposes a way of measuring how much time people strictly need to spend on various activities of daily life.