This paper by Ann Harding, Justine McNamara, Robert Tanton, Anne Daly and Mandy Yap, describes results from an innovative use of the 2001 Australian census microdata, focussed on well-being and disadvantage from the child's perspective, to construct a composite index of child social exclusion risk. Abstract

Growth in demand for housing assistance amongst renters will exceed the growth rate for households from 2003 to 2011 reports Ann Harding. Growth will take place mainly in major cities, but higher rates of growth will occur in non-metropolitan areas of New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. This report is part...

Does housing stress vary greatly between areas? What is a typical profile of a household in housing stress? These are the types of questions answered in this paper, which presents estimates of housing stress for local areas in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory in 2001. Shih-Foong Chin and Ann Harding...

In the May 2005 budget the federal government announced a range of proposed welfare to work measures, including significant changes which would significatly reduce weekly incomes and sharply increase effective marginal tax rates for sole parents and people with disabilities. In this report Ann Harding, Quoc Ngu Vu and Richard Percival canvass options for reducing...

In the May 2005 budget the federal government announced a range of proposed welfare to work measures, including the plan to shift sole parents with a youngest child aged six years or more onto the Newstart Allowance. This report shows that the disposable incomes of sole parents could be up to about $100 a week...