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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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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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Review: Roger Southall, Liberation Movements in Power: Party & State in Southern Africa (2013)
Africa Spectrum, 2014 Review of the monograph:Roger Southall, Liberation Movements in Power: Party & State in Southern Africa, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey; Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013, ISBN 9781847010667, 400 ...
Reinhart Koessler
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Do que “os Livros Diziam” à Rua da Glória, n. 52: o PCB e a “questão camponesa” (1927-1947) [PDF]
Revista IDEAS, 2009 This article treat the formation of ““Peasantry Question” in the Communist Party of Brazil during 20 and 40’s. By this study is possible to perceive how ideas on men and situations of Brazilian hinterland to give place to Peasantry Leagues and formation ...
Leonardo Soares dos Santos
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn +4 more
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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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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century [PDF]
Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S.
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz
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Voter Turnout: Ideologically Swayed? Exploring Effects of Ideologically Extreme Parties on OECD Countries [PDF]
, 2016 : This paper sets out to explore how voter turnout varies across countries. People turning out to vote are a vital part of any democracy. The people who turn out to vote tend to set the trend for how the country will be run.
Pressnall, Nathaniel L
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton +4 more
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The dimensionality of the Portuguese party policy space [PDF]
, 2002 We provide a comprehensive analysis of the Portuguese parties and their policy space. We show how and how well the parties have been able to adapt to the changing environment in the party system.
Camões, Pedro J. +2 more
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