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Fiona Macdonald
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Women, work, care and COVID
This report examines how women in couple families with male partners and primary school-aged children managed work, family and remote schooling during long pandemic-related lockdowns. It draws on in-depth interviews with 14 women and the findings highlight how the triple load in lockdowns is taking its toll on gender equality.
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Nature and extent of gender-based violence in individualised disability support and aged care services in Victoria
This scoping study, conducted for WorkSafe Victoria, reports on available evidence on the nature and extent of gender-based violence in individualised disability support and aged care services in Victoria. The study also explores what is known about the circumstances in which working conditions may provide a context for gender-based violence.
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Day in the life of a care and support worker
This research uses time diaries and interviews to obtain detailed data on workers’ time during the working day and their paid and unpaid work.
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Precarity and job instability on the frontlines of NDIS support work
In this report, researchers document the experience of front-line disability service workers under the NDIS based on first-hand qualitative interviews.
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Reasonable, necessary and valued: pricing disability services for quality support and decent jobs
This report examines the prospects for quality services and decent jobs under Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).