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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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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

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Natasha Ginnivan, Amanuel Kidane Hagos, Tony Butler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chronological Changes in Intra-aneurysmal Signal Intensity on T1-weighted Black Blood Images after Endovascular Treatment for Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica
Intra-aneurysmal thrombus formation is crucial for the healing of endovascularly treated aneurysms. This study evaluated whether T1-weighted black blood imaging can monitor thrombus formation by examining the relationship between chronological signal ...
Yukishige HASHIMOTO, Toshinori MATSUSHIGE, Reo KAWANO, Masahiro HOSOGAI, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Shinichiro OKU, Mayumi KANEKO, Chiaki ONO, Nobutaka HORIE   +8 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of life among individuals with long COVID symptoms in Indonesia at four points of recovery

Discover Mental Health
Purposes We aim to assess the health-related quality of life of individuals with long COVID in Indonesia at  24 months after recovery from the initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
Irma Hidayana, Zahira Rahvenia, Dicky C. Pelupessy, Milya Urfa Ahmad   +3 more
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Lessons from Tanzanian children in how to foster safety and inclusion in Catholic schools

Child Protection and Practice
This methodological paper explores the use of Participatory Action Research (PAR) to empower children in 14 Tanzanian Catholic schools as co-researchers in identifying and addressing the unwritten rules shaping their safety and experience of inclusivity.
Kate McAlpine, Raphael Dennis, Isabel Cooper, Emmanuel James, Sia Maro, Hannah Lapsley   +5 more
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Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

Bacteremia caused by Actinotignum schaalii in a 78-year-old man with benign prostatic hyperplasia

Journal of Hospital General Medicine
Actinotignum schaalii is most commonly associated with urinary tract infections in older adults and infants with underlying urogenital diseases. It is an anaerobic, gram-positive rod that grows slowly. However, routine urine culture protocols may fail to
Yuta Yoshino, Natsumi Sato
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