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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
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Baltic Journal of European studies, 2019 The article is devoted to the experience of the application of a concept of militant democracy in modern Ukraine. This concept is relevant due to the prolonged domination of the communist totalitarian regime until 1991, and also in view of the ...
Barabash Yurii, Berchenko Hryhorii
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Model Struggle, Yes. Model Contract, No. [PDF]
, 1984 [Excerpt] As the largest airline union and one with a tradition of hard-nosed bargaining, the IAM and the role of its District 100 at Eastern have become the focus of discussion in and out of the labor movement.
Baicich, Paul J., Compa, Lance
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Militant democracy and autonomy [PDF]
Pravni zapisi, 2013 The concept of militant democracy - understood as the restriction of rights in order to protect the democratic form of government from authoritarian threats - is fraught with tensions. The main one is this: is it possible for a democracy to limit democratic rights at its ontological core and still remain a democracy? The essay reviews Violeta Besirevic'
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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'
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The Council of Europe and Democratic Security
Politikon, 2016 The concept of security has remained in the shadows of the ‘three pillars’ of the Council of Europe (CoE) until 2015 when the annual report of its Secretary General presented the term ‘democratic security’.
Max Steuer
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011 This article explores some relationships established between the militant activity, the unions and politics in Argentina in the second half of the twentieth century.
Nicolás Damin
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‘A state of one’s own’: secessionism and federalism in India [PDF]
, 2006 Ever since the 'ethnic explosion' and secessionism blasted across the world in the mid-1980s, theorists have worked overtime to devise solutions to what appears to be an intractable problem.
Chandhoke, Neera
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