Introduction Australia has a national Carer Recognition Act 2010 ( Commonwealth of Australia, 2010 ) and states and territories also have legislation and strategies in place to recognise and support unpaid carers. Such legislation is intended to recognise the social and economic contribution of family carers and supports needed to ensure carers have rights and choices related to paid work, income security, health and well-being ( Chomik, Williams and Baird, 2019 ). Central to the introduction of legislation and policies recognising and supporting carers is
Australia Australia has a solid record of protecting civil and political rights, with robust in- stitutions and a vibrant press and civil society that act as a check on government power. However, the government’s failure to respect international standards for asylum seekers and refugees continues to take a heavy human toll. In 2015, Australia’s practices of mandatory detention of asylum seekers, abuses related to offshore processing, and outsourcing of refugee obligations to other countries were heavily criticized by United Nations experts, foreign govern- ments
Australia Australia has a solid record of protecting civil and political rights, with robust in- stitutions and a vibrant press and civil society that act as a check on government power. The government’s failure to respect international standards protecting asylum seekers and refugees, however, continues to take a heavy human toll and undermines Australia’s ability to call for stronger human rights protections abroad. In 2014, Australia introduced new overbroad counterterrorism measures that would infringe on freedoms of expression and movement. The government
Introduction With fewer than 31,000 cases and fewer than 1,000 deaths, Australia has been far less impacted by COVID-19 than most other countries, partly due to strong preventive responses by government. Strict hygiene and social distancing measures were enacted early on, followed by closures of non-essential businesses from March to May 2020. The second-wave outbreak in Melbourne in June 2020 caused the state of Victoria to introduce even stricter limitations on gatherings, businesses and movements. Internal border closures restricted movement within
; Boin et al, 2021 ). To play an influential role in public policy and democracy, data ecosystems should contribute to building and maintaining the evidence base for public deliberations and policy decisions. Our ecosystem conceptual framework is applied to investigate the operation of data ecosystems that informed Australia’s COVID-19 pandemic response. We explore the emergence and functioning of data ecosystems before COVID-19, then compare them to the pandemic phase, which created unprecedented demands for infectious disease modelling. Interviews with data experts
23 TWO australia’s ‘shy’ de-secularisation process Adam Possamai introduction In many parts of the world religion has re-entered the public sphere to such an extent that it has undermined the ‘hard line’ secularisation thesis – that is, the assumption that religion would disappear in Western, modernised societies. Since this ‘hard line’ view should not be happening, views on secularisation have had to be revised. Some academics (for example, Bruce 2002, 2006; Norris and Inglehart, 2004) explain that secularisation is still happening but in a much less
first “hard lockdown” of a high-density residential building anywhere in Australia in response to a global pandemic’ ( Victorian Ombudsman, 2020 : 170). There were no state or federal guidelines relating to such an intervention or, indeed, the exercise and enforcement of these emergency powers ( Victorian Ombudsman, 2020 : 170). On Thursday 9 July, conditions in most of the towers were relaxed in line with the broader Stage 3 ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions that applied throughout the rest of the Melbourne metropolitan area. However, the hard lockdown order was extended
At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming them. It brings together leading authors to explore economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and indigenous issues. It examines trends and current policy directions and outlines progressive alternatives that challenge and extend current thinking. While focused on Australia, the contributors offer valuable insights for people in other countries committed to social justice and those engaged in the ongoing contest between neo-liberalism and social democracy. This is essential reading for policy practitioners, researchers and students as well those with an interest in the future of public policy.
suffering other. Yet in extending the hand of friendship, they were also taking a stance on what had become one of Australia’s most polarizing political issues. 2001 had brought so-called ‘illegal immigrants’ to the forefront of Australia’s political debate. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, Australian Prime Minister John Howard had campaigned for re-election on a platform of border protection and national security. Refugees and asylum seekers, travelling to Australia by boat in search of safety, were portrayed by politicians and the
109 Longitudinal and Life Course Studies • vol 10 • no 1 • 109–23 © Authors 2019 • Paper received June 2018/Revised November 2018/Published online January 2019 Online ISSN 1757-9597 • https://doi.org/10.1332/175795919X15468755933407 STUDY PROFILE An introduction to the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) John Moore and Ronnie Semo, RonnieSemo@ncver.edu.au National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Australia The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) is a large, nationally representative study that follows youth cohorts
