Family Matters article Dec 1993
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
Well being of young people in different family circumstances
This paper examines the financial, physical and emotional wellbeing of adolescents from sole-mother and couple families, some of whose parents are in paid work and some not.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Violence against women in the home
This article, the second of three articles focusing on family violence in this issue of Family Matters, examines violence against women in the home.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The rights of indigenous peoples in the International Year of the Family
This article, the second of four papers focusing on disadvantaged families in this issue of 'Family Matters', begins by examining the historical relationship between the state and indigenous peoples of Australia.
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Policy and practice paper Jun 1994
Domestic violence as a form of child abuse: Identification and prevention
Every year in Australia, thousands of children, as well as women, suffer physically, psychologically and sexually as a result of acts of violence
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Aboriginal young people and youth subcultures
This paper draws on the preliminary findings of an ethnographic study investigating how Nyungar young people living in a southern metropolitan region of Perth articulate their everyday experiences of the nexus between substance use and the police.
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Family Matters article Mar 1995
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey 1994
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Family Matters article Mar 1995
The role of police in physical domestic violence
This article presents survey findings of 185 adults around their views on police intervention in domestic violence situations to explore the level of community support for the enforcement of the criminal process when physical violence against women occurs in the family home.
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Family Matters article Sep 1995
Indigenous Customary Law and Australian Family Law
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Policy and practice paper Dec 1995
Update on child sexual abuse
Current issues of child sexual abuse, perpetrator characteristics, the "backlash" against child abuse, ritual abuse and prevention initiatives.