Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton +4 more
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From “Watchdog” to “Attackdog”: Media depictions of Jeremy Corbyn are an affront to democracy [PDF]
, 2016 A healthy democracy requires a watchdog in its press — not an ‘attackdog’, ‘snarling’ and ‘barking’ at an elected politician. Yet this is how Jeremy Corbyn is being treated by the media, explains Brooks DeCillia.
DeCillia, Brooks
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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Literary Engagement with the (Traumatic) Past
American and British Studies Annual, 2015 Review of History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction by Beata Piątek (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014)
Šárka Bubíková
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An age of consent : press representations of endemic sexual abuse of young girls by Pitcairn Island men : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Women's Studies at Massey University [PDF]
, 2004 This thesis is an analysis of press representations of Pitcairn Island women's complaints of child sexual abuse by the island's men. Press constructions of the case provide an opportunity to analyse how western society represents the alleged endemic ...
Robison, Vivien Ruth
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Brexit and the drift of political communication reflected in the British and European press
Sfera Politicii, 2019 Brexit is a political phenomenon that has put European liberal democracies under heavy trial. The popular passions aroused by this subject in the UK exceeded reasonable expectations and turned into unimaginable verbal and non-verbal violence for the ...
Gheorghe Ciascai
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International perspectives on Leveson – what the non-UK media says [PDF]
, 2012 Canada’s Globe and Mail claims the British press and its foes are ‘terrified’ over the outcome of Lord Leveson’s ...
Beckett, Charlie
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Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life [PDF]
This paper examines the social construction of the new wakefulness-promoting drug Modafinil (brand name Provigil) in the British press. Key themes in this newspaper coverage include the potential 'uses' and 'abuses' of this drug in relation to: (i ...
Abraham +43 more
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