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Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia, Kai W. Wheeler, Tracy Woodroffe, Karen Thorpe   +3 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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Urbanism and Urbanization

Issue, 1978
Africa is now the least urbanized of the continents but is becoming more so at one of the fastest rates in the world. The history of urbanization in Africa predates the birth of Christ; it may have developed as early as 3500 B.C. in the flood plain of the lower Nile for control and administration of the Nile Valley by the Pharaohs, though most of the ...
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Urban Regeneration for Urban Health

2020
For some years now when attempting to regenerate the urban fabric of big cities, the field of environmental design has been tackling the challenges posed by ongoing climate change, extreme poverty, social marginalisation and health problems, where these are neither occasional nor residual situations that arise as part of development processes but ...
Battisti A., Barnocchi A., Iorio S.
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Urbanism and Urbanity

Urban Affairs Quarterly, 1989
The functions of cities in societies are discussed in this essay, the specialized functions performed and the integration of functions. The cities are seen as marketplaces of ideas, attitudes, artifacts, and consequently, innovation; they are driving wheels of great cultures.
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Urban Dynamics and Urban Cycles [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1978
Some basic elements of catastrophe theory are discussed insofar as they relate to discontinuities observed in the allocation of economic activities in urban settings. The case of a dynamic model of the allocation of manufacturing and residential activities is presented in an open urban area as a model of a hyperbolic umbilic catastrophe.
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