Report
Australia’s multi‑provider social housing system: contest or growth?
This research examined Australia’s multi-provider social housing system and analysed changes over time to social housing delivery. It finds Australia lacks long-term, sustainable social housing growth models and the report offers policymakers options to reverse the decline.
Case study
Social policy during the coronavirus recession: a fairytale with an unhappy ending?
This paper is about the social policy response to the coronavirus recession in Australia, during the period from the beginning of March to the end of October 2020.
Report
Victoria's social economy: social opportunity, economic growth
This report examines the growth of artificial intelligence and its effects on the current and future workforce, and concludes this will not replace the complex work of physical and social services delivered by humans any time soon. As other workforces diminish in the face of rising automation, the social economy workforce will continue to grow.
Report
An unfair go? Government funding of government and non-government school education
Although universities are the only area of education spending solely funded by the Commonwealth, they received only one-third of the increase in education spending in this year's federal budget. Once again, argue David Hayward and Alexis Esposto, the budget shifted funds away from government education and towards private schooling. And it is the wealthiest schools...
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An unnecessary act?
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.