The mess of federal budget negotiations has taken over the limited space for social policy debates. However, we are due to get final reports on a range of inquiries. These include the McClure report on…
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The confirmation that 1,400 children were subjected to sexual exploitation over a 16 year period in Rotherham forms part of a wider picture of similar events. The Catholic Church has still not worked out…
The Department for Education’s proposal that for-profit companies could provide child protection services and other statutory functions for families caused a major public uproar this spring – and the furore…
One of the many preparatory events leading up to the G20 Leaders Summit in Australia later this year is the C20 Summit, which will begin in Melbourne on Thursday. The C20 – or Civil Society 20 – aims to…
You might assume that social work, as one of Australia’s oldest and well-established caring professions, needn’t worry about its future. You’d be wrong. Far-reaching changes to organisational culture and…
Michael Gove has taken aim at social workers and called for a major rethink of how they approach their work. According to the education secretary, social workers are often trained to see those they work…
The conviction of seven men for rape, child prostitution and trafficking in Oxford on Tuesday brings to an end another horrific case of child sexual exploitation. Social services were again in the firing…
Unpopular Government cuts, introduced last year that have pushed more than 100,000 sole parents onto lower support payments, has left many families reeling with single mothers experiencing particular disadvantage…
The NSW Treasury’s current trial of social benefit bonds is attracting a lot of attention, including a session devoted to bonds and other social enterprise innovations at the Economic Society of Australia’s…
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Associate Professor, Digital Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor, Management Discipline Group UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics and Dean of Business at Alphacrucis College, Sydney; Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Sessional academic, Faculty of Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology
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Reader in Social Work, University of York
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Chair of the Child Protection Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor, Public Service Research Group, UNSW
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ANZSOG Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Royal Holloway
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Serivces and Social Work, Griffith University
