Family Matters article Dec 1991
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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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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 Aug 1991
Institute undertakes three-year study into Australian living standards
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Controlling the purse strings
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
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 Apr 1991
Sole Parent Pension: A bridge for solo players?
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
The outskirts of Sydney and Melbourne
This article reports on the use of cluster analysis to examine existing data on what sort of families live in suburbs on the outskirts of Sydney and Melbourne, and whether they have jobs and mortgages, and to what extent the fringe areas are similar to each other and different from suburbs closer to the city centre.
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
Youth wages and poverty
This article discusses the rationales that underpin the practice of youth wages traditionally being set at a lower rate than adult wages.