In Australia most social housing is provided by state government agencies with a small community housing sector, and the total social housing sector accounts for 5 per cent of stock. Since the 1990s governments have introduced 'managerialist' reforms to the sector in order to increase accountability and flexibility. In this paper Terry Burke looks at...

Terry Burke provides a conceptual framework for understanding why and how indigenous cultures require culturally specific management practices in social housing, illustrating these issues with reference to Indigenous housing in Australia. The framework is adapted from the field of intercultural management and is used to reveal how social housing provision and management for Australia's indigenous...

Dr James Jupp writes that an audit of the democratic rights of immigrants has found Australia does a good job of protecting citizens, but places the human rights of refugees and other non-citizens at risk. According to the report, 'Australian democracy can claim successes but must also admit failures in its implementation of a liberal...

The Victorian government is in the process of cutting around 300 positions from the head office of the Department of Education and Training. In this paper, David Hayward looks at why the cuts are being made and whether they are justified.

The idea of the 'information society' has taken hold in sociological and political analysis. Information technology, it is argued, is forming new virtual and actual networks that make up communities, both local and global. Computer networks are capable of transcending national boundaries, as information and communications is shared globally; they are also capable of redefining...