The latest findings add to the understanding of how social disadvantage such as poverty and low-quality, unsafe housing can affect early child development.
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One social housing application assessor told us getting on the priority wait list is so challenging, some applicants abandon the process altogether.
What do disadvantaged communities need to weather long COVID? Ask them.
The mental health impact of the pandemic has not affected everyone equally. An equitable approach to mental health promotion, prevention and treatment can help ensure equitable access to services.
An initiative to address a skills gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics may be actually narrowing the pool of students who consider a career in STEM.
Less than 15% of the most disadvantaged people in Australia exit poverty from one year to the next. We need to design policy to tackle this.
Shape-shifting bodies. Cracking voices. Hairs sprouting in new places. Why do some children enter puberty early?
Past attempts to help Latrobe Valley workers weather economic changes haven’t made a difference, so the closure of Hazelwood presents a challenge.
David Cameron has tried to claim the clothes of social justice for the Conservatives. It’s time he took them off.
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Professor, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Ronald Henderson Research Fellow Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research & Brotherhood of St Laurence, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science, Federation University Australia
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Director of External Programmes, Centre for Advanced Management Education, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation University Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Management, Federation University Australia
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Associate Professor and Visiting Academic, Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Bordeaux Schoool of Economics, Université de Bordeaux
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Karl Mannheim Chair of Sociology of Education, UCL
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Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, and Visiting Fellow, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
