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A hand up not a hand out: renewing the fight against poverty: report on poverty and financial hardship

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Australia. Parliament. Senate. Community Affairs References Committee
  • Publisher: Parliament of Australia, Community Affairs Committee
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 0642711992
  • Country: Australia

There has been a significant growth in poverty in Australia over the last decade. At the time of this report's release a consensus of estimates puts the number of people living in poverty at between two and three and a half million. In reporting on this inquiry into poverty the Senate Community Affairs References Committee gathered ....

Developing an Exploratory Framework Linking Australian Aboriginal Peoples' Connection to Country and Concepts of Wellbeing

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Kingsley, Jonathan; Townsend, Mardie; Henderson-Wilson, Claire; Bolam, Bruce
  • Journal Name: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal Number: 10.2
  • Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International
  • Published Location: Basel, Switzerland
  • ISBN: 1661-7827
  • Country: Australia

Aboriginal people across Australia suffer significant health inequalities compared with the non-Indigenous population. Evidence indicates that inroads can be made to reduce these inequalities by better understanding social and cultural determinants of health, applying holistic notions of health and developing less rigid definitions of wellbeing. ....

Educational and Occupational Outcomes Amongst African Men From Refugee Backgrounds Living in Urban and Regional Southeast Queensland

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Correa-Velez, Ignacio; Onsando, Gerald
  • Journal Name: Australasian Review of African Studies, The
  • Journal Number: Vol. 30, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Over the last ten years, approximately one third of refugee and humanitarian entrants to Australia have been adult men. To date, little research has been done on their health and settlement issues. Many of these men have come from the African continent. This paper reports on the educational and employment outcomes of a group of 173 ....

Ethnicity

  • Year: Various
  • Author: Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: All
  • Scope: Divided by: State: All
    Region: No
    Industry: No
  • Regularity: Various
  • Nature of Data (Primary/Secondary): Primary

Includes ancestry, birthplace, citizenship, language, migrants, and religion This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to ethnicity in regional Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on ethnicity in regional Australia. Report Locationhttp://ww ....

Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship in Federal Community Development Programs

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Smith, Richard John
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • Published Location: United States -- California
  • ISBN: 9781124554693
  • Country: United States

This study is about the role of immigrants and minority businesses in a recent community development initiative administered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Federal Renewal Community, Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (RC/EZ/EC) programs spanned the Clinton and Bush administrations and promised t ....

Older Australia at a glance

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Angus, P; Bennett, S; Jenkins, A; Karmel, R; Niemeyer, S; Rowland, F
  • Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 1740242076
  • Country: Australia

Significant changes to all aspects of social and economic life are expected to occur as a result of the increasing proportion of older people in the community. This report, a joint venture of the Australian Institute of Health and the Commonwealth Government's Ageing and Aged Care Division, presents current demographic data about a ....

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION EFFECTS OF MIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Hugo, G; Harris, K
  • Publisher: Department of Immigration and Citizenship
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

This project was commissioned by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), and has five main components. An analysis of population movement for Australia, at the statistical division level, detailing intrastate, interstate and net migration against a range of demographic, productive and human capital criteria. An analysis of the m ....

Sustaining the regions: issues of international migration, settlement and ethnic diversity

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Khakbaz, Mitra; Gopalkrishnan, Narayan; Babacan, Hurriyet
  • Journal Name: Population and society: issues, research, policy: Australian Population Association 12th Biennial Conference
  • Publisher: ACSPRI Centre for Social Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • Country: Australia

Federal Government strategies to increase international migration to regional areas include regional skilled migration, increased business migration and approval of international students living in Australia for permanent residence. Injecting migrants into rural and regional areas raises fundamental questions about quality of servi ....

Unhealthy encounters : legacies and challenges for the health status of settler and Aboriginal communities

  • Year: 2002
  • Author: Wilkinson, D
  • Publisher: Hawke Institute, University of South Australia
  • Published Location: Magill, SA
  • Country: Australia

The author outlines the differences that exist in the health status of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, aiming to provide a clear picture of differences in health status now, and over time. Next he presents data on use of health services by Aboriginal Australians, showing quite marked differences from use by non- Aborigin ....

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