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Life Course Centre
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
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Working paper
Gender trap: the gender structure, violence, and women’s unfreedom
The aim of this research was to deepen our understanding of how gender-based violence functions as a mechanism of disadvantage in women’s lives. Through improving this understanding, the authors aim to help draw attention to key sites and opportunities for disrupting this process.
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Can consumer participation help end homelessness in Australia?
While the current research, policy and practice show appetite for consumer participation in addressing homelessness, there is very little consistency in how it is understood and few examples of its successes in practice.
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Ending homelessness in Australia: what is the problem?
Despite substantial evidence that there are solutions to homelessness, and that there are many good reasons to want it solved, homelessness continues to both persist and increase. This literature review explores how homelessness is currently understood and responded to, with the intention of identifying the factors that might prevent it from being effectively ended in...
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Gender gaps in unpaid domestic and care work: putting the pandemic in (a Life Course) perspective
The aim of this paper is to put the COVID-19 pandemic in perspective by observing trends in gender inequality in unpaid domestic or care work over the short and long-term in Australia.
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Cultural understandings of responsibility amongst Samoan diaspora in Greater Brisbane
This paper attempts to understand how notions of ‘responsibility’, particularly fiscal and non-fiscal responsibility, are enacted in the everyday lived experiences of Samoan diaspora in Greater Brisbane, Australia.