Family Matters article Apr 1994
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The Value of Care and Nurture Provided by Unpaid Household Work
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
High-rise parenting: raising children in Melbourne's high-rise estates
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Who needs neighbours?
This article challenges widely held views that outer suburban life is one of isolation, cut off from family, friends and neighbours, while neighbourliness is pervasive in the older middle suburbs and an inherent part of inner suburban and city living.
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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.