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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Community work – the missing link of municipal social policy
SHS Web of Conferences, 2012 Municipal social policy has an important role in dealing with social problems of citizens. On micro level, municipalities spend a substantial amount of their budget solving such problems.
Moors M.
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, 2004 Issues related to democratic restructuring and citizenship at the municipal level in Latin America have been the subject of increasing interest and debate among scholars and development practitioners in recent years.
W. E. (Ted) Hewitt, Hewitt, W E
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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Health Care Reforms, Power Concentration, and Receding Citizen Participation. [PDF]
Risk Manag Healthc Policy, 2023 Simonet D.
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Enhancing E-Participation through Citizen-to-Citizen Interactions: Evidence from a Government-sponsored Forum in China [PDF]
Citizen participation is a crucial challenge for government departments, and the potential of citizen-to-citizen (C2C) interactions to enhance government governance remains under-explored. This paper examines the impact of citizens' online social capital
Liu, Luning, Feng, Yuqiang, Zhou, Mingxi
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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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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
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Learning methodology in the classroom to encourage participation
London Review of Education, 2014 Service learning is a methodology that promotes the participation of citizens in their community. This article presents a brief conceptualization of citizen participation, characteristics of servicelearning methodology, and validation of a programme ...
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, 2015 Part 3: EvaluationInternational audienceThe use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is growing globally, as is interest in the use of digital technologies to improve citizens’ participation in governance.
Wakabi, Wairagala +5 more
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