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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
wiley   +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
wiley   +1 more source

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

An autopoietic approach to custody and contact decisions and the welfare and best interests of the child [PDF]

, 2012
All over the common law world complaints are heard about the manner in which the courts decide the living arrangements for children when their parents separate.
Schrenk, Amelda
core  

Extending The Rights of Unmarried Fathers in Zimbabwe: An Exploration of the Sadiqi v Muteswa [2020] ZWHHC Case [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Unmarried fathers experience significant problems when seeking visitation, custody, and guardianship rights for their children. There has been little research on the constitutional position of an unmarried man in a Zimbabwean context.
Ruth Tafadzwa Nyamadzawo
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mother’s Termination of her Right in Custody, and Consensual Divorce up to it, and Dropping it in Islamic Jurisprudence and Personal Status Law

دراسات: علوم الشريعة والقانون, 2020
This research is centered on three main issues related to the right of custody. They include the provisions of the mother forfeiting her right to custody of her children, making this an alternative to consensual divorce; and the mother’s return to the ...
Emad Zyadat, Hayel Dawood, Ali Abuyehia   +2 more
doaj  

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Problems of Right Realization for Minors Citizens Protection

Vestnik Omskoj Ûridičeskoj Akademii, 2013
This article deals with the peculiarities of right realization of parents under-age protection, the protection of orphans and children left without parental care.
Sitkova O. Y.
doaj  

Detained Children: Vulnerability, Violence and Violation of Rights

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) establishes provisions and protections to which under-18s are entitled; establishing state obligations to ensure the realisation of children’s rights for all, including ‘disadvantaged’ or ...
Deena Haydon
doaj   +1 more source