Family Matters article Apr 1991
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Employment and income security support
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
Child care resources: inner and outer Melbourne
This article discusses preliminary inquiries to inner city centres indicating that there continues to be a shortage of places to meet the needs of parents who live and work in the inner city and that the issue is one of overall supply, not just of geographical distribution of child care places.
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Changing families, changing laws
This article discusses recent moves to reform laws which affect both parents and children after separation, based on issues raised in the Family Law Council's discussion paper 'Patterns of parenting after separation'.
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Child care
This article looks at child care policy and practice in Sweden and the United Kingdom, two countries whose policies will most likely shape the provision of child care in Australia during the 1990s.
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
There's no work here, eh
This article looks at the effects of the recession, and other factors, on employment in rural and remote towns, such as Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory where the Institute has begun interviewing for the Australian Living Standards Study, and notes that the community has lost ground during the eighties, despite all its efforts and plans.
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Research report Dec 1991
Taking the children to work: Work-related child care in south-eastern Melbourne
The paper explores some of the opportunities for work-related child care in south-eastern Melbourne.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Sharing the caring: Rethinking current policies
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Family day care
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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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Research report Jun 1992
Report on stage one of the Early Childhood Contexts Study: Preliminary findings
The Australian Early Childhood study is designed both to describe and to examine the relationship between a broad range of family factors