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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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Towards a better understanding of the low income consumer [PDF]

, 2005
Research on low-income or poorer consumers and the disadvantages that they encounter in the marketplace is the focus of this paper. A number of commonly held beliefs about low-income consumers need to be challenged but since these consumers are not high ...
Catterall, M., Hamilton, K.L.
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Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
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Fashioning identities : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University [PDF]

, 1993
This research addresses the way in which individual and collective identities are constructed through fashions in the contemporary western world. The reciprocal and interdependent relationship of processually emergent identities, and fashion as a ...
Green, Nicola Catherine
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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
wiley   +1 more source

NASIS 2012-2013 METHODOLOGY REPORT [PDF]

, 2013
This report presents a detailed account of the design and fielding of the 2012-2013 Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (NASIS). Users of the 2013 NASIS data will find it an important reference source for answers to questions about methodology.
Bureau of Sociological Research
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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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NASIS 2015: Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey [PDF]

, 2015
We need your help to learn about how Nebraskans think, feel, and live. Researchers from the University of Nebraska and across the state are counting on your help to learn about a variety of issues.
Bureau of Sociological Research
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NASIS 2018 Methodology Report [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction 3 Mode Selection 3 Design & Item Selection 3 Sampling Design 4 Experimental Design Treatment 4 Data Collection Process 4 Response Rate 5 Data-Entry Training, Supervision, and Quality Control 5 Processing of Completed Surveys 5 ...
Bureau of Sociological Research
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THE VALUE AND ASPECTS OF THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LEGAL SECURITY [PDF]

Legea și Viața
The study is dedicated to the right to a fair trial, with the aim of highlighting the necessity of researching and understanding its essence, dimensions, and content to successfully strengthen the internal legal mechanism for its enforcement and ...
Irina IACUB, Gheorghe COSTACHI
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