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50/50 by 2020: poverty and redistributive politics in post-independence Fiji [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The affirmative action program launched by the Fiji Government in 2002 espoused a '50/50 by 2020' vision; that is, by the year 2020, some 50 per cent of all economic activities would be owned by the indigenous population.
Chand, Satish
core  

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian 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

LIVELIHOODS, HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY IN SOUTH SUMATRA WETLANDS

open access: yesSriwijaya Journal of Environment, 2017
The research aimed to analyze livelihoods, household income and indigenous technology in South Sumatra wetlands. The research method used field survey and interviews with respondents by using questionnaires.
Elisa Wildayana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the mechanism of artificial selection signature in Chinese indigenous pigs by leveraging multiple bioinformatics database tools

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2023
Background Chinese indigenous pigs in Yunnan exhibit considerable phenotypic diversity, but their population structure and the biological interpretation of signatures of artificial selection require further investigation.
Xueyan Feng   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour: Report I (B) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Explains how the concept of forced labor is defined in international law and discusses some parameters for identifying contemporary forced labor situations in practice.
International Labour Conference 93rd Session   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Heart failure nursing in Australia: Challenges, strengths, and opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Australia has a land mass similar to the United States of America, supporting a population of just over 20 million, which is distributed predominantly across the coastal perimeter.
Clark, Robyn   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

To Raise or Not to Raise: An Experimental Test of Community Support for Increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of
Cameron T. Langfield   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘We are Sending the Funeral Home’: Migration and Funeral Rites in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Funeral rites do not only serve as occasions for the living to find closure, bid farewell to the deceased, and usher them into the ancestral realm, but also, opportunities for the dispersed contemporary family to reconnect with the extended family and ...
Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
doaj   +1 more source

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