Unemployment, casualisation and underemployment have emerged as major issues for people at the bottom end of the labour market. Small regional economies like Tasmania have been particularly hard-hit by the impacts of labour market restructuring. This report reviews ABS data since the late 1970s, comparing changes in the Tasmanian labour market with those at a...

This policy framework was developed to refocus the 1989 Supportive School Environments policy. Schools are being reconceptualised as a central component of the continuum of provision for lifelong learning that includes childcare at one end and a range of adult and community education provisions at the other. Interagency co-ordination, partnerships, clear pathways and collaborative action...

A range of Federal and State Government housing policies over the past decade have combined with a recent boom in the housing market to dramatically reduce the affordable housing options of low income earners in Tasmania. Most low income households no longer have access to the public housing sector. They are forced into the private...

Tasmanian voters went to the polls on 20 July 2002, well before an election was due. Dubbed "the cold snap election", it was only the fifth Tasmanian election held in the middle of winter. The Bacon Labor government was comfortably returned, the Liberal Party lost ground and the Tasmanian Greens re-emerged as important parliamentary players...

There has been a significant relative decline in Tasmanian household per capita income over the past 20 years. Government pensions and benefits had become the main source of income for almost 40 per cent of Tasmanian families, by far the highest rate of reliance on social security in the nation.