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Rocks exposes the realities of social care, where children feel left out of decisions that shape their lives.
Food pantries, the providers of services to the homeless and similar organizations now face enormous challenges.
The MyGov website ground to a halt this week as thousands of people tried to access welfare support. As a result, long queues popped up at Centrelink offices across the country.
Women and children remain vulnerable to harm even after intimate violence has occurred. Coordinating a community’s response can help avoid educational, employment, social, housing and legal problems.
Children’s voices are being omitted from their care records, with devastating effect.
Many cities have no standard method for counting the number of people who live in their cars. This means that their issues are often overlooked in policies designed to help the homeless.
It’s the people most dependent on social services, who are least able to easily transition into the digital age.
Children growing up in Northern Ireland are far less likely to be in foster or residential care than those in England, Scotland or Wales.
A new regulation makes it easier for the government to contract local NGOs.
The Trump administration wants to privatize more of the federal bureaucracy. New research suggests this can lead to discrimination in essential government services.
Treasurer Scott Morrison abandoned the proposed increase to the Medicare levy to pay for the NDIS. Here’s what you need to know about how the NDIS is funded, and how cost predictions have changed.
Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
Politics Podcast: Brian Howe on Revisiting Henderson, Poverty and Basic Income
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Brian Howe says the targeted nature of Australia's social security system goes hand-in-hand with stigmatising welfare recipients.
Social workers are there to help, not to rip families apart.
Mia: Daughters of Fortune is a powerful new play that puts this issue under the spotlight.
Seeing cheerful kids in fundraising pitches works better for some potential donors than others, research suggests. Nonprofits may want to tailor their appeals to different audiences because of that.
Trump’s budget director singled out Meals on Wheels as a waste of federal dollars. But identifying bad ways to spend taxpayer money is harder than it sounds.
The extent of Centrelink’s customer service delivery problems is legendary – and it’s been getting worse in recent years.
We created a graphic to explain what’s really going on when Centrelink says its wait time is under 16 minutes.
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Professor, Digital Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Lead for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, PUSKAPA
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Economics and Theology at Alphacrucis College, Sydney, Alphacrucis College
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Reader in Social Work, University of York
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Chair of the Child Protection Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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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 University of London
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Human Serivces and Social Work, Griffith University
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Sessional academic, Faculty of Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology
