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Ilan Katz

Ilan Katz is director of the Social Policy Research Centre.
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Engaging hard-to-reach families and children

This report documents one of three themed studies undertaken as part of the national evaluation of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004-09

The implications of poverty on child readiness to learn

ARACY has released this report to guide discussion and decision making on opportunities for intervention

How useful is the term 'culturally and linguistically diiverse' (CALD) in Australian research and policy discourse?

Can this term provide researchers, practitioners, and policy makers with a better ability to monitor and respond to their level of social exclusion and inequity to services, opportunities and representation, as the basis for promoting ethnic equality in the future, asks this paper

Stronger families in Australia study: the impact of communities for children

This report presents the results of the evaluation of the short-run impacts of the Communities for Children (CfC) initiative on child, family and community outcomes

National evaluation (2004-2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004-2009

This report covers three of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy initiatives - Communities for Children (CfC), Invest to Grow and Local Answers

A good time to be modest

It's important to remember evidence-based policy focuses on specific interventions and can't always take into account the context in which they are implemented, writes ILAN KATZ

A good time to be modest
Exclusion or inclusion - or both?

Labor’s social inclusion agenda is an exciting development, writes ILAN KATZ, but it will be a while before we know whether it will fulfil its promise

Family resilience where families have a child (0-8 years) with disability: final report

Using the findings from the primary data collection with families and stakeholders, this report develops the understanding of resilience in these families

Enhancing family and relationship service accessibility and delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia

This paper builds on and synthesises the emerging international and national literature to develop a practice and policy framework that can be used to help overcome inequities in access to family relationship services for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families in Australia

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Rethinking the Rules Governing Australia
16 March 2010

Australian citizens are being asked to provide input into a nation-wide
discussion about how to improve the rules governing our country.

Rethink Australia spokesperson Rodger Hills, says the time has come to
review the way Australia is run. “As citizens, we have a responsibility to
plan for a brighter future and a more enlightened democratic process than
the one we have inherited from our fore bearers.”

Rethink Australia has released a public discussion paper today to provide
the basis for dialogue and deliberation amongst members of the public over

Secrecy law reforms strike a blow to old culture of government secrecy
12 March 2010

The Australian Law Reform Commission report into Commonwealth secrecy laws, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) is the result of a 15 -month inquiry which identified 506 secrecy provisions in 176 pieces of Commonwealth legislation, including 358 criminal secrecy offences.

WANTED: Communications Projects (Melbourne)
16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.

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