Daniel Perkins

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Is career advancement important to disadvantaged jobseekers?

This paper looks at career aspirations among Australians who have experienced long periods out of the workforce

Making it work: promoting participation of job seekers with multiple barriers through the Personal Support Programme

Personal Support Programme participants had somewhat higher levels of economic and social participation and less interference from barriers, according to this report

A positive influence: equipping parents to support young people's career transitions

This is the final evaluation of PACTS (Parents As Career Transition Supports), an innovative Brotherhood pilot project that aims to empower parents to better support their children’s transitions from school to work and/or further education by building their knowledge of post-school pathways and the contemporary job market

Personal Support Programme evaluation: interim report

Interim findings suggest that the Personal Support Programme (PSP) is a vital program for assisting people with multiple non-vocational barriers to employment, but that several factors reduce its effectiveness – notably, inadequate funding to help clients access services such as education and counselling

Beyond neoliberalism: the social investment state?

In the United Kingdom and the European Union, social policy is losing its economic rationalist spots at an increasingly rapid pace

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Copyright Law Inquiry
10 February 2012

The Attorney-General, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, has announced the appointment of Professor Jill McKeough as Commissioner in charge of the ALRC’s Inquiry into Copyright Law.

Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards: new inquiry
07 February 2012
The Productivity Commission has been asked to report within 8 months on Default Superannuation Funds in Modern Awards. The inquiry covers the design of criteria for the selection and ongoing assessment of superannuation funds for nomination as default funds in modern awards.
Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access released
13 January 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access examines the recent East Asia Summit, bilateral alliances in the Asia Pacific, the future of Timor-Leste, women's participation in peace processes and more.

Read QA online: http://www.aiia.asn.au/qa/qa-vol4-issue1

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