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National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
wiley   +1 more source

The potential of EV battery-swapping in developing countries: China’s use case as a baseline for sub-saharan Africa

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The global automotive sector is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the imperative to adopt electric vehicles (EVs) and mitigate carbon emissions.
Daniel Simwaba, Abubaker Qutieshat
doaj   +1 more source

Public Debt of Japan: Analysis of Features and Assessment of Prospects

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2019
The article describes the current state of Japan's public debt, which exceeds its GDP by almost 2.5 times; it seeks to identify the main causes for its growth, analyses its structure, reviews the main stages of its formation; assesses the effectiveness ...
R. B. Nozdreva
doaj   +1 more source

Asymmetric effect of government debt on GDP growth: evidence from Namibia

Public Sector Economics, 2021
The objective of this study is to investigate the asymmetric relationship between government debt and GDP growth in Namibia. The study applied the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) methods to determine the asymmetrical effect of ...
Teboho Jeremiah Mosikari, Joel Hinaunye Eita   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Debt Frontiers: The Greek Case [PDF]

, 2017
This paper attempts to quantify the maximum amount of debt that a government can sustain by itself, i.e., the limits to public indebtedness. Using a Dynamic General Equilibrium model where the government is fully characterized, we compute the steady ...
Fernández-de-Córdoba-Martos, Gonzalo, Torres-Chacon, Jose Luis   +1 more
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

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
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

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, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

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, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source