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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

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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The People Demand Social Justice: The Social Protest in Israel as an Agoral Gathering

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2018
The summer of 2011 has seen the first mass-scale social protest in Israel in its 70 years of existence. This social wave that shook the country, showed unique characteristics a-typical of most social and political uprisings, that go largely unexplained ...
Zysberg Leehu
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De las fincas y las casas a las rutas y las plazas: las protestas y las organizaciones sociales en la Argentina de los mundos "rururbanos". Una mirada desde América Latina From farms and homes to roads and squares: social organizations and protests in "rururban" Argentinean worlds. A Latin American outlook

Sociologias, 2003
La crisis institucional que se hace visible en la Argentina el 19 y 20 de diciembre de 2001 fue precedida por una década de protestas sociales. A diferencia de otros tiempos, en estos años estas acciones se fueron desplegando por todo el territorio ...
Norma Giarracca
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Participation and Media: Comparative Analysis of Anti-Austerity in the Eurozone Crisis ‒ Introduction

International Journal of Communication, 2020
 The year 2008 marked the beginning of a global financial crisis that severely affected how social, political, and media spheres are perceived by citizens.
Miguel Vicente-Marino, Tao Papaioannou, Peter Dahlgren   +2 more
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‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

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, Kate D'Cruz, Mark Brown, Jacinta Douglas, Dianne Winkler   +4 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian 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, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

El preludio de la tormenta: Conflictos y movilización social en Nicaragua 2014-2018

Confluenze
In April 2018, a social uprising occurred in Nicaragua with massive protests that lasted until early 2019 when they were crushed by state violence. The protests surprised the government because they expressed discontent that was not perceived to be so ...
Elvira Cuadra Lira
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Social distancing causally impacts the spread of SARS-CoV-2: a U.S. nationwide event study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
We assess the causal impact of social distancing on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. using the quasi-natural experimental setting created by the spontaneous relaxation of social distancing behavior brought on by the protests that erupted across the ...
Louis Gagnon, Stephanie Gagnon, Jessica Lloyd   +2 more
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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