Family Matters article Apr 1991
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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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Practice guide Jul 2012
Working with sexual assault investigations
Interview with Patrick Tidmarsh, Forensic Interview Advisor, Sexual Offences Child Abuse Investigation Team (SOCIT), Victoria Police
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Practice guide Nov 2012
A snapshot of how local context affects sexual assault service provision in regional, rural and remote Australia
Regional, rural and remote sexual assault services in Australia face unique challenges in meeting the needs of the populations they seek to support.
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Practice guide Jun 2004
Responding to sexual assault in rural communities
Structured around the main themes that often figure in the literature on issues relating to sexual assault or violence against women in rural contexts
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Practice guide Jan 2014
Supporting healthy communities through arts programs
This paper considers the role of the arts in building and supporting healthy communities.
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Practice guide Dec 2011
Effective practices for service delivery coordination in Indigenous communities
Explores what is known about service delivery coordination activities in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Picking up the pieces
This article is a literature review of research regarding the responses of individuals, families and communities to catastrophic events.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Placed-based approaches to addressing disadvantage
Drawing on two examples, namely the impact of scale and population mobility, this paper argues there is a need to ensure that the approaches used to identify and track changes in areas of concentrated disadvantage are very closely aligned to any potential policy response.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Family and place
The first set of articles in this edition of Family Matters considers aspects of place, including neighbourhood effects and the measurement of locational disadvantage - key issues in informing public policy - and discussion of place-based programs designed to ameliorate the impacts of disadvantage on children, families and communities.