Family Matters article Aug 1991
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Self-determination: Helping Aboriginal families to realise the ideal
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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
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.
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Family Matters article Nov 1990
Location of child care in Melbourne
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Research report May 1988
Low wage earners in Australia: A report prepared for the Brotherhood of St Laurence
Defines part of the workforce as low wage workers and then examines their characteristics in terms of employment, family type and income.
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Research report Sep 1983
Early Childhood Services
Submission to the Victorian Government Committee of Review of Early Childhood Services, September 1983
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Research report May 1983
Social support in an Australian community
The study carried out in Geelong in May 1982 was an attempt to see how families in one Australian community have been coping with the pressures
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Research report Apr 1983
Towards a national child care policy
Child care services are among the most effective support services that governments can provide for families.
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Research report Jul 1982
Social support networks: A critical review of models and findings
The first section of this monograph identifies and evaluates the major explanatory models in use and summarises important findings.
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Research report Jul 1980
The family and the pre-school child
Stresses the social context of child rearing and challenges some standard assumptions concerning family arrangements for the pre-school child