Family Matters article Apr 1991
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
Employment and income security support
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Living day to day
The paper examines the effects of the recession on 54 families with at least one unemployed member and a low income or families who were experiencing severe economic hardship for some other reason such as a substantial decline in the income of self-employed people.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Unemployment income support, the active society and AEDP
In this article the author analyses the labour market environment of two remote area Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) communities in the Northern Territory to see if, after five years of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy, more members of Aboriginal families had gained access to the conventional labour market and the Active Society.
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
Adolescent cigarette smokers and their families
This article looks at characteristics distinguishing adolescent smokers and non-smokers, based on data for Box Hill and Berwick families derived from the Australian Living Standards Study.
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Families, young people and the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
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Family Matters article Sep 1996
Meeting the support needs of families with dependent children where the parent has a mental illness
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Latest Australian and Overseas Quality-of-Life Research
This article provides information on the First Conference of the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, held in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare reform in Britain, Australia and the United States
This article considers whether Britain and Australia will eventually have to ask the same tough question that the US has faced: do we want to defend the right of lone parents to choose not to work, or do we really want to reduce the levels of welfare dependency?
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare dependency and economic opportunity
In this paper, the author criticises and evaluates Lawrence Mead's 'Welfare reform and the family', and offers a British perspective on welfare dependency and economic opportunity.