This final report of the evaluation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme trial sites reports on key themes and outcomes related to disability services and supports. It concludes that the Scheme has been designed on sound fundamentals and is delivering the desired outcomes, with some qualifications.

The norms of men as breadwinners and women as carers face a different reality, with large and ongoing consequences for employment arrangements, family formation and the raising of children. Abstract Traditional gender roles are being disturbed by the increasing earnings of women relative to men. We document the rise in female breadwinning over the last...

This research report contributes to the body of knowledge about the aged care workforce in Australia.

This paper looks at how the mobile phone may shape the boundaries between the public (work) and private (home) domains, and on how these boundaries are negotiated or navigated. Positive and negative impacts of the mobile phone appear to be dependant on occupation, economic and market forces, contextual factors associated with bureaucratic structures, and the...

Diannah Lowry and Megan Moskos report on a study exploring the impact of the workplace mobile phone in a selection of Australian workplaces. This study involved interviews with 20 workers from different occupational and organisational settings. A consistent theme was the notion of the work mobile phone as a 'double-edged' sword that served to define...