ACOSS' Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Committee regarding the Social Security Amendment (Fair Incentives to Work) Bill (2012). This submission mainly addresses Schedule 1, as we recommend that Schedule 2 (liquid assets test) be passed. ACOSS was also a signatory to a request for the Standing Committee on Human Rights to review the Bill’s...

This presentation looks at the context and history of the FIFO phenomenon, and relates these to neighbourhood, community and family. It argues for the need to build a sociology of communities that fosters healthy individuals and connected and supportive communities.

In February 2011, the Australian Government announced Australia’s new multicultural policy – The People of Australia – which reaffirms the importance of a culturally diverse and socially cohesive nation. In March 2012, the Australian Human Rights Commission launched a wide-ranging consultation process to stimulate community debate, discussion and input to guide the development of the...

This discussion paper presents research on current issues in relation to productivity and workforce participation, examines issues in relation to future demand from industry, and starts to explore policy options The paper was produced by the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency to invite stakeholder input on these matters prior to the Agency providing advice to...

This book resulted from a research project intended to revisit historical, spatially diverse and now contemporary articulations of Indigenous and settler-state and settler-capitalist social and economic forms.