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UK Citizen’s Council for the future : creating new spaces for citizens’ voices and long-term thinking in politics [PDF]

, 2012
This paper sets out the rationale and requirement for a citizens' council, a new space for UK citizens to engage with and inform long-term political thinking.Publisher ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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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, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of High Efficacy Groups for Hospital‐Wide Standardized Hypnotic Bundles on Insomnia: A Subgroup Analysis of the COBATON Study

Journal of General and Family Medicine
Introduction In a previous study, a reduction in hypnotic‐related fall and injury incidence rates was revealed after the hospital‐wide standardization of hypnotic bundles for insomnia.
Yuta Yoshino, Naoko Fudaka, Miyuki Ogawa
doaj   +1 more source

If citizens have a voice, who's listening? Lessons from recent citizen consultation experiments for the European Union. CEPS EPIN Working Paper No. 24, 12 June 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
Are European Union institutions, as they claim, really listening to citizens thanks to more ‘deliberative’ consultation tools? The European Commission and the European Parliament in particular have committed themselves to engaging in a dialogue with ...
Boucher, Stephen.
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Practical tools for practitioners: Unravelling power dynamics as a prelude to preventing violence against women and children

Child Protection and Practice
This paper explores how to employ effective, community-engaged strategies to understand and address the underlying power asymmetries that fuel violence against women and children.
Kate McAlpine, Raphael Dennis, Mathias Mkude, Sia Maro   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

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, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The European Citizens' Initiative: A First Assessment [PDF]

, 2012
Designed in order to enable the effective use of this new instrument and to guarantee equal ...
Dorota Szeligowska, Elitsa Mincheva
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source