Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Discovery as public infrastructure: Renewing the social contract for science. [PDF]
Carbajo S, Madni A, Powles J.
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
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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Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility and Adolescent Reproductive Health in Developing Economies: Pathways, Controversies, and Policy Priorities. [PDF]
Maridueña-Larrea Á +5 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
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 +3 more
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From brain drain to geopolitical talent competition: scientific diasporas and the future of Global South development. [PDF]
Buyuktanir Karacan D, Tapia Takaki D.
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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
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Embodying well-being in research: key principles and praxis. [PDF]
Rahrig H +15 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Social norms vs socioeconomic vulnerability: Gender identity and female labor force participation in Ecuador. [PDF]
Yepez J, Caria S.
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