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Briefing paper

Supporting careers: mentoring or sponsorship?


This paper explores the differences between mentoring and sponsorship for women in the workforce and outlines the benefits and the drawbacks for both.
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Australian youth unemployment 2014: snapshot


Introduction: The Brotherhood of St Laurence has launched a campaign to bring attention to the rising crisis of youth unemployment in Australia. Youth unemployment has risen across the country, and now sits at 12.2% nationally. That’s up from 8.8% in 2008. But much worse – there are youth unemployment hotspots right across the country where...
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Working for the few: political capture and economic inequality


Introduction: Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The World Economic Forum has identified economic inequality as a major risk to human progress, impacting social stability within...
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Family migration to Australia


This paper reviews the thinking behind Australia's family migration program and the aspects considered when planning its size and composition each year. Executive summary: In contrast to the United States of America, the Australian Government has steadily prioritised skilled migration within Australia’s permanent Migration Program, with proportionally fewer family places available. The current Coalition Government...
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Learning from research: systematic reviews for informing policy decisions


This guide is a short introduction for decision-makers and researchers or anyone else considering whether a systematic review may be appropriate to fill a gap in knowledge or to use as a resource.