1 day ago by Michele

Extract Stephen Hughes argues that public service providers must focus on achieving tangible outcomes for individuals in the poorest areas, and that this will require a rethink of the entire system centred around a multiple-agency model that can overcome professional prejudice and compartmentalisati ...

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2 days ago by Tom Worthington

The Australian Government released "Energy Efficiency Information Grants Program Guidelines" on 9 February 2012. The program is for industry associations and non-profit organisations to provide energy efficiency information to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and community organisations. The Ener ...

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2 days ago by Tom Worthington

The Australian Government released "Low Income Energy Efficiency Program Guidelines" on 9 February 2012. It opens for Expressions of Interest on 13 February 2012 for $100M in grants to service providers to demonstrate smarter energy use in low income households. The closing date for submission of Ex ...

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4 days ago by Michele

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – Extract The Life Around Here study was designed to provide information about the factors that influence the participation of families in paid employment and their communities more broadly. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 59 households (involving 71 individuals) across Br ...

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5 days ago by Michele

ABSTRACT ‘Neighbourhood’ was a key political and administrative concept for the New Labour administration and was the spatial focus for a proliferation of initiatives in the early period. Yet since 2006, the appeal and use of ‘neighbourhood’ have waned as evidence of the impact of neighbourhood inte ...

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5 days ago by Vivian

This article examines the extent to which service-learning courses affect students’ attitudes and opinions. Elsewhere, we used a pre/postsurvey field experiment to demonstrate that volunteering with a homeless person tends to erode the stereotypes held by the domiciled—a confirmation of the venerabl ...

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5 days ago by Mikey Bear

This year was the 17th year of the Victorian Pride March. The weather forecast was 33 degrees C, windy and thunderstorms. I guess that’s Melbourne for you. There were close on 120 entrants in the parade (that’s organisations, not people), which is a remarkable effort. Check out the march order for t ...

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5 days ago by Vivian

The purpose of this article is to examine trends in ‘middle class welfare’ in Australia, defined in various ways, including the extent of cash transfers going to working age families with incomes above the second decile in the distribution of family incomes, the middle 50 per cent, and the richest 2 ...

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8 days ago by Vivian

Thursday, 15 March, 2012 8:30 AM – 11:15 AM Rydges Hotel, 186 Exhibition Street, Melbourne This AHURI Housing Research Seminar will present the findings from two new AHURI research projects – Other countries’ policy initiatives to meet the housing needs of asset poor older persons: implications for ...

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9 days ago by Vivian

ABSTRACT This article presents multivariate analyses of the characteristics associated with both participation in adult education and the intention to participate in future learning. It uses questionnaire data from more than 47,000 individuals collected by the National Institute of Adult Continuing ...

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