Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Research on Citizen Participation in Government Ecological Environment Governance Based on the Research Perspective of "Dual Carbon Target". [PDF]
J Environ Public Health, 2022 Chen S, Liu N.
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Who is willing to deliberate, and how? Dissatisfied democrats, stealth democrats and populists in the UK: SEI Working Paper 131 [PDF]
, 2012 This article draws on a new survey of British citizens to test the hypothesis that there are two quite distinctive types of attitude prevalent among those who are ‘disaffected’ with politics, the ‘dissatisfied democratic’ and ‘stealth democratic ...
Webb, Paul
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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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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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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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Citizens at the forefront of the constitutional debate: Voluntary citizen participation determinants and emergent content in Chile. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Raveau MP +4 more
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Understanding citizen science and environmental monitoring: final report on behalf of UK Environmental Observation Framework [PDF]
, 2012 Citizen science can broadly be defined as the involvement of volunteers in science. Over the past decade there has been a rapid increase in the number of citizen science initiatives.
Pocock, M.J.O. +6 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The (mis)match between civil society organisations and individual citizen participation
International Review of Public PolicyGovernments increasingly engage individual citizens in the policy-making process and also in contexts where civil society organisations (CSOs) traditionally play a substantial role in this process by advocating for the interests and needs of their ...
Berkvens Liese, Bram Verschuere
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