Top Social Policy reports 2010

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17 December 2010
The five most read reports and commentary pieces in the Social Policy area in 2010 were:

1. Who will benefit from the 1 July 2010 tax cuts?
Robert Tanton

2. Asylum seekers and refugees: what are the facts?
Janet Phillips | Parliamentary Library

3. Boat arrivals in Australia since 1976: January 2010 update
Janet Phillips, Harriet Spinks | Parliamentary Library

4.  Poverty versus inequality
Robert Tanton | NATSEM

5. Welfare quarantining: reversing the burden of truth
Kemran Mestan | Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology

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