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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 +2 more
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Administration Body Election in Iran, Quality and that Assessment of Performance [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2015 Election is among the criteria for distinguishing democratic system from other systems and the important parameters to evaluating and performance of these systems.
Noorollah Gheisari +2 more
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The municipal power in the aspect of the electoral rights of the voters
Проблеми Законності, 2014 This article examines some of the problems, connected mainly with the development of human ideas about the municipal authorities in the historical and legal context.
О. М. Новак
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The rejection of AV is the fifth occasion in the last 100 years that a proposal to replace FPTP has failed. This history of failure to secure electoral reform hinges on the ever-changing political calculus between Labour and the Liberal Democrats [PDF]
, 2011 Throughout the AV referendum campaign, there was general agreement that it was a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity for electoral reform in Britain. But, does greater impetus for electoral reform happen only once in a generation?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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Conflict Prevention in Estonia: The Role of the Electoral System [PDF]
, 2002 Estonia's success in averting a potential conflict over its Russian-speaking minority is often attributed to the intervention of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.
Khrychikov, S., Miall, Hugh
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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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EL PARLAMENT DE CATALUNYA EN CLAU DE FUTUR [PDF]
Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2007 The article presents some ideas aimed at making the Parliament of Cataloniaa more central institution in the political process. After analysing the possiblemeaning of the expression "crisis of parliaments” in modern societies,the legal amendments to the ...
Jordi Capo Giol, Joan Marcet Morera
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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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Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2002 The purpose of this article is to explore the mechanisms that have been used by Brazilian voters to punish and reward their representatives. The article has three sections.
Nicolau Jairo
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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