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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue +2 more
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The effect of new technologies on civic participation models [PDF]
, 2018 The development of new technologies will enable decentralization and freedom of communication for large numbers of people, by overcoming the barriers that once rendered direct participation of society unfeasible.
Holubiak, Nataliia
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian 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
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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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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder +3 more
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Citizen Forum on Participatory Planning and Budgeting to Promote the Inclusive Village Governance
Jurnal ABDINUS : Jurnal Pengabdian Nusantara, 2022 After 23 years of reformation, one of the regulatory products that reflect the devolution and delegation of decentralized development management authority to the local government is Law No. 6/2014 on Villages which promises further community involvement, by placing the village as the centre of regional development and not only as an object of the ...
Rifai Rifai +3 more
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International Journal of Qualitative MethodsDuring the past two decades across New South Wales and Queensland, koala populations have been in steep decline. Despite being nationally listed as Endangered in 2022, populations have not been stabilised and threats to the long-term survival of koalas ...
Liz Foote +6 more
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Enabling citizens’ Right to the Smart City through the co-creation of digital platforms
Urban Transformations, 2022 In response to increasingly deterministic and all-encompassing implementation of smart city technologies, scholars and activists plea for policies and initiatives to support citizens’ democratic ‘Right to the Smart City.’ Although it is common for ...
Els M. Leclercq, Emiel A. Rijshouwer
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Design Matters : CBNRM and Democratic Innovation [PDF]
, 2019 Community-based natural resource management (CBRNM) aims to realize sustainable management of resources and improvements in livelihood. A central focus is the empowerment of indigenous and local communities through customary or devolved rights to common ...
Smith, G., Smith, G.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on teacher agency as a conceptual framework, we explored the extent to which school teachers in secondary schools in England achieve agency in relation to teaching climate change and sustainability. This research provides a novel approach to understanding the relational and emergent qualities of teacher agency by bringing together ...
Nicola Walshe, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton
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