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Key achievements of New South Wales local government Disability Inclusion Action Plans in the era of inclusion policy and planning: A policy content analysis 包容政策和规划时代新南威尔士州地方政府残疾人包容行动计划的主要成就：政策内容分析

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.259

Katie Butler

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Collaboration between Australian peak bodies and governments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: New ways of interacting 在COVID - 19大流行背景下，澳大利亚高峰机构与政府之间的合作:新的互动方式

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.260

Wendy L. Foote, Amy Conley Wright, Jennifer Mason, Tracy McEwan

{"title":"Collaboration between Australian peak bodies and governments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: New ways of interacting","authors":"Wendy L. Foote, Amy Conley Wright, Jennifer Mason, Tracy McEwan","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.260","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajs4.260","url":null,"abstract":"Peak bodies (“peaks”) are funded by Australian governments to fulfil a multifaceted role, including presenting a collective voice to government on behalf of their nongovernmental service provider members and the vulnerable client populations they serve. However, the relationship between peaks and governments has been fraught, with governments imposing contractual conditions in exchange for funding, thereby constraining advocacy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the nongovernmental sector provided vital services, including care and support for children and families, and dispensed emergency funding through their service networks. This research investigates engagement between peak bodies and governments during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2021. Nineteen CEOs and senior executives were interviewed from 16 peak bodies. Additionally, 27 surveys were completed by peak and nongovernmental sector representatives. Interview transcripts were coded using NVivo and thematically analysed. Four types of interactions between government and peak bodies were identified: collective leadership; partnership; advocacy to influence; and advocacy designed for public pressure. These four types of interactions formed a public advocacy continuum. In some Australian jurisdictions, the study showed that collective and partnership mechanisms between peaks and government were strengthened or revived, yet sustained work will be needed to entrench these positive developments in a postcrisis environment.","PeriodicalId":46787,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"58 4","pages":"838-854"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajs4.260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44356941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the role of place-based arts initiatives in addressing social inequity in Australia: A systematic review 探索基于场所的艺术举措在解决澳大利亚社会不平等问题中的作用：系统综述

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-02-17 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.257

Emma Heard, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Geoff Woolcock

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Recognition and responses to intimate partner violence (IPV) in gambler's help services: A qualitative study 赌徒求助服务中对亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的认知和反应：一项定性研究

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.256

Aino Suomi, Carol O'Dwyer, Alyssa Sbisa, Olivia Metcalf, Anne-Laure Couineau, Meaghan O'Donnell, Sean Cowlishaw

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Organisational fragility among urban FNOs in the era of New Public Management 新公共管理时代城市FNO的组织脆弱性

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-01-22 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.243

Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Karen Soldatic, June Riemer, John Leha, Chris Mason, Cheryl Goh, Janet Hunt, Jack Gibson

{"title":"Organisational fragility among urban FNOs in the era of New Public Management","authors":"Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Karen Soldatic, June Riemer, John Leha, Chris Mason, Cheryl Goh, Janet Hunt, Jack Gibson","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.243","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajs4.243","url":null,"abstract":"While Australian governments generally acknowledge that First Nations organisations (FNOs) have better reach into First Nations communities than mainstream not-for-profit (NFP) organisations and governments, as we document in this paper, a survey of community-controlled FNOs in significant urban areas in New South Wales (NSW) suggests that funding and administrative arrangements in the era of New Public Management (NPM) are at odds, and in some instances, actually undermine the effectiveness of FNOs. To explore and gain an explicit insight into the potential tensions in, contradictions with and constraints of NPM on governments supporting and realising the full potential of FNOs in achieving community outcomes, this paper turns its attention to the results of a survey designed by senior position holders from six community-controlled FNOs in the Greater Sydney region and three academics. The survey was designed to examine the relationship of the ability of FNOs to act in the interests of their community members with the normalisation of NPM as policy discourse and practice across all layers of government (Federal, State and Local). Urban areas within the state of NSW as its focus, the core findings from the survey suggest that in the NPM era, urban FNOs face numerous difficulties in realising their community mandates and simultaneously guaranteeing their sustainability for the future. The findings suggest that rather than extending the capacity of FNOs and their reach into their communities, NPM policy structures and mandates create increased administrative burdens, precarity and fragility, as well as decreased organisational autonomy and self-determination.","PeriodicalId":46787,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"58 3","pages":"523-549"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajs4.243","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43320345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The “good refugee” ideal: How discourses of deservingness permeate Australia's refugee and asylum seeker narratives “好难民”理想：体面的话语如何渗透到澳大利亚的难民和寻求庇护者叙事中

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.255

Sal Clark, Ashleigh Haw, Laurel Mackenzie

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Adolescents at risk of mental health problems in the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective population-based study of the effects of government mandates and school closures COVID - 19大流行中有心理健康问题风险的青少年:一项基于人口的前瞻性研究，研究政府命令和学校关闭的影响

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-01-08 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.249

Lisa K. Mundy, Louise Canterford, S. Ghazaleh Dashti, Hanafi Mohamad Husin, Ruth Beatson, Ben Edwards, George C. Patton

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How do Australian policymakers frame the causes of and policy solutions to poverty? A critical examination of Anti-Poverty Week parliamentary debates from 2012 to 2021 澳大利亚的政策制定者如何制定贫困的原因和政策解决方案?2012年至2021年反贫困周议会辩论的批判性审查

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.254

Philip Mendes, Steven Roche

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Counting homelessness: Working creatively to generate complex descriptive profiles of the health and demographics of people experiencing homelessness in Adelaide 统计无家可归者人数:创造性地编制阿德莱德无家可归者健康和人口统计资料的复杂描述资料

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.253

Joanne Flavel, Lisa Wood, Toby Freeman, Shannen Vallesi, Kristen Foley, Yvonne Parry, Fran Baum

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Associations between ongoing COVID-19 lockdown and the financial and mental health experiences of Australian families 正在进行的COVID-19封锁与澳大利亚家庭的财务和心理健康经历之间的联系

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Australian Journal of Social Issues Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.252

Anna M. H. Price, Diana Contreras-Suárez, Anna Zhu, Natalie Schreurs, Mary-Anne Measey, Sue Woolfenden, Jade Burley, Hannah Bryson, Daryl Efron, Anthea Rhodes, Sharon Goldfeld

{"title":"Associations between ongoing COVID-19 lockdown and the financial and mental health experiences of Australian families","authors":"Anna M. H. Price, Diana Contreras-Suárez, Anna Zhu, Natalie Schreurs, Mary-Anne Measey, Sue Woolfenden, Jade Burley, Hannah Bryson, Daryl Efron, Anthea Rhodes, Sharon Goldfeld","doi":"10.1002/ajs4.252","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajs4.252","url":null,"abstract":"In 2020, Australia's successful COVID-19 public health restrictions comprised a national “initial lockdown” (March–May) and “ongoing lockdown” (July–November) for metropolitan Victorian residents only. We evaluated associations between ongoing lockdown and family finances and mental health. In the June and September 2020 Royal Children's Hospital National Child Health Polls, caregivers of children in Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) reported the following: job/income loss; material deprivation (inability to pay for essential items); income poverty; mental health (Kessler-6); perceived impact on caregiver/child mental health; and caregiver/child coping. Data from caregivers (N = 1207/902) in June/September were analysed using difference-in-difference modelling (NSW provided the comparator). During Victoria's ongoing lockdown, job/income loss increased by 11% (95%CI: 3%–18%); Kessler-6 poor mental health by 6% (95%CI: −0.3%–12%) and perceived negative mental health impacts by 14% for caregivers (95%CI: 6%–23%) and 12% for children (95%CI: 4%–20%). Female (vs. male) caregivers, metropolitan (vs. regional/rural) families, and families with elementary school-aged children (vs. pre-/high-school) were the most affected. The ongoing lockdown was associated with negative experiences of mental health, employment and income, but not deprivation or poverty, likely because of government income supplements introduced early in the pandemic. Future lockdowns require planned responses to outbreaks and evidence-informed financial and mental health supports.","PeriodicalId":46787,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Social Issues","volume":"58 1","pages":"173-193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880716/pdf/AJS4-9999-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9170123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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