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Community attitudes to people living with disability: review of literature and best practice
This review of literature and best practice identifies commonly held attitudes within the general community, as well as more specific attitudes relating to employment, housing, health and community care and education
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Volunteering during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2021)
This paper provides data on changes to volunteering and voluntary work since COVID-19, and the impacts of these changes in Australia.
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Financial stress and social security settings in Australia
This research finds that inadequate social security payments play a significant role in shaping poverty and financial stress trends in Australia. It also finds that it is possible to address these challenges by increasing the overall social security budget.
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The experience of Asian-Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic: discrimination and wellbeing
The aim of this paper is to document the changes in outcomes for Asian-Australians from January 2020 to October 2020, comparing the change in outcomes to the rest of the Australian population. In addition, the authors compare how attitudes of the total Australian population towards Asian-Australians compare to attitudes more generally.
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Public attitudes on vaccine distribution
The aim of this paper is to summarise the results from a survey experiment on a probability-based, representative sample of the Australian population during mid-August 2020, that tested explicitly the relative weight that Australians put on different characteristics of individuals, in terms of who should receive a vaccine ahead of others.