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  • Supporting Adult Care-Leavers

    International Good Practice

    by Suellen Murray ...
    Growing up in care is not just a part of childhood, but can have ongoing impacts across a person’s life. Various inquiries have revealed accounts of abuse and neglect, and a fracturing of family relationships.Organised thematically to allow comparison of different initiatives, this book considers the range of responses to adult care leavers in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Finding Lost Childhoods

    Supporting Care-Leavers to Access Personal Records

    by Suellen Murray ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores care-leavers’ access to their personal records. People who grew up in care in previous decades may know little about their family nor understand why they were placed in care nor how decisions were made about their lives. Personal records can be a source of this information. Murray posits that it is crucial that those releasing these records understand their significance. Taking ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Half a Citizen

    Life on welfare in Australia

    by Sonia Martin, Suellen Murray, Greg Marston, Jenny Chalmers, John Murphy ...
    'This important and illuminating book provides a powerful and harrowing depiction of the inadequacies of the Australian welfare system. Its findings challenge the foundations and direction of the welfare reform agenda.' - Professor Peter Saunders, University of New South Wales'This major new study challenges many myths about life on welfare and in low paid work. It should be read by anyone ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • From the Margins to the Mainstream

    The Domestic Violence Services Movement in Victoria, Australia, 1974-2016

    by Dr Jacqui Theobald, Associate Professor Suellen Murray, Judith Smart ...
    In the aftermath of the 2015 Victorian royal commission, billions of dollars of government funds have been committed to improving responses to women and children experiencing domestic violence. Such attention was unimaginable forty years ago when feminists in Victoria and across Australia first established women's refuges. At that time, domestic violence was not publicly acknowledged or tackled in ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Australia's Welfare Wars

    The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

    by Philip Mendes ...
    In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Nudge Unit

    How small changes can make a big difference

    by David Halpern ...
    With a foreword by Richard Thaler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics!New Updated Edition, 2019.Dr David Halpern, behavioural scientist and head of the government's Behavioural Insights Team, or Nudge Unit, invites you inside the unconventional, multi-million pound saving initiative that makes a big difference through influencing small, simple changes in our behaviour. Using the application of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Battlers and Billionaires

    The Updated Story of Inequality in Australia

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    Series Book 1 - Redback Quarterly
    Unpacking inequality in Australia by renowned economist and MP Andrew LeighIs Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1820s. The housing and cost ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Planning Polity

    Planning, Government and the Policy Process

    by Mark Tewdwr-Jones ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Politics in Australia

    Theories, Practices and Issues

    Edited by Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen, Ian Cook ...
    Contemporary Politics in Australia provides a lively and wide-ranging introduction to the study of Australian politics. Written by a diverse range of experts, the book offers a comprehensive overview of current theories, debates and research in Australian political science and looks forward to new developments. It encompasses not only formal and institutionally based politics, but also the ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Just About Everything

    The hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    Did you know that another 10 cm of height boosts your income by thousands of dollars per year? Or that a boy born in January is nearly twice as likely to play first grade rugby league as a boy born in December? Or that natural disasters attract more foreign aid if they happen on a slow news day? And that a perfectly clean desk can be as inefficient as a messy one?Drawing on examples and data from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Pinch

    How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - and Why They Should Give it Back

    by David Willetts ...
    The baby boom of 1945-65 produced the biggest, richest generation that Britain has ever known. Today, at the peak of their power and wealth, baby boomers now run the country; by virtue of their sheer demographic power, they have fashioned the world around them in a way that meets all of their housing, healthcare, and financial needs. In this original and provocative book, David Willetts shows how ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australian Social Policy and the Human Services

    by Ed Carson, Lorraine Kerr ...
    Social policy encompasses the study of social needs, policy development and administrative arrangements aimed at improving citizen wellbeing and redressing disadvantage. Australian Social Policy and the Human Services introduces readers to the mechanisms of policy development, implementation and evaluation. This third edition emphasises the complexity of practice, examining the links and gaps ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD