Family Matters article Jun 1997
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Costs of children in Australia - update
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Family Matters article Jun 1997
The next generation
The author reports on what happens to the children of Australia's growing non-English speaking migrant population that has been particularly disadvantaged in terms of access to information and participation in the broader community.
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Family Matters article Jun 1997
Parenting Plans - Should they be set in concrete?
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Harmony in the home
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Youth and ethnicity
This article considers problems of definition, with particular focus on the way the identities of young people from non-English-speaking backgrounds were constructed during the period of assimilation and later under multiculturalism.
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Family Matters article Mar 1995
Changes at the heart of family housholds
This article looks at results from the first ever national survey of time use, conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1992, a new information resource which provides information about the unpaid work that takes place at home.
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Family Matters article Jun 1995
New Forward Research Program for Institute
This article reports on the Australian Institute of Family Studies research program for the next three years.
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Family Matters article Sep 2005
What Australians think about parental responsibilities
The author describes a current study of the Australian Institute of Family Studies commissioned by the Attorney General's Department to evaluate the impact of Imminent changes to family law, set out in the Family Law Reform Act No.1 (Children), which will alter the way the law talks about parental responsibilities for their children after separation.
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Family Matters article Sep 1995
Australia's Child Support Scheme
This article looks at the history and current status of Australia's Child Support scheme, considering issues such as collection rate, collection enforcement, delivery of payments, split between bureaucracies, client relations, discrimination against Stage One children, and discrimination against non-custodial parents.
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Family Matters article Sep 1995
British Child Support Act in practice
This article discusses the widespread and hostile opposition to the British Child Support Act 1991.