The ways in which parents currently manage their family and work responsibilities, and the means by which equitable outcomes are to be achieved and maintained, are not well understood, even basic information on the use of parental leave policies has not been available. This report aims to redress the information deficit and to provide a...

This report of a scoping project encompasses the breadth of issues facing culturally and linguistically diverse older people in Queensland. This report encompasses the breadth of issues facing culturally and linguistically diverse older people in Queensland.

This study investigates gender differences in the associations between social characteristics and men’s and women’s reports of which spouse initiated marital separation. Using retrospective data on 9,147 first marriages from the Household Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey (2001), we find that some social characteristics differentiated between separations initiated by wives compared to husbands...

In this paper from the Welfare-to-work conference Helen Cameron discusses aspects of a study into the lives of poor families with young children and examines their fortunes in current policy environments, raised into sharper relief by the latest welfare-to-work shift. Poverty diminishes life chances and contributes to lower levels of human and social opportunity with...

What, asks Ian Hunter, can we learn from the fact that on 30 May 2006, acting in his capacity East Timor’s President and head of state, Xanana Gusmao declared a state of emergency, assuming sole direction of the country’s armed forces and police, with the power to restrict freedom of assembly and movement? At the...