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AQ: Australian Quarterly3 min readPoverty & Homelessness
A Word
Inequality is arguably the catch-cry of our times, but when you pick it apart what does it actually look like in the Australian context? Is it economic, is it political; is it tax breaks for big business, or the everyday homelessness of our capital c
AQ: Australian Quarterly12 min readGlobalization
Redefining Inequality: It's the Inequity of Social Trust, not 'the Economy, Stupid'
ARTICLE BY: Eva Cox AO When viewed as systemic rather than materialistic, the question then becomes how to interpret the effects of inequality as symptoms of unfair systems – systems that generate antisocial distrust and undermine social cohesion. Th
AQ: Australian Quarterly12 min readDiscrimination & Race Relations
Drowning In The Rising Tide: Policy And Inequality In Australia
ARTICLE BY: DAVID HETHERINGTON Yet despite this newfound celebrity, the contours of inequality are poorly understood. Over the past forty years, inequality has both risen and fallen depending on where you look. Perhaps surprising, global income inequ
AQ: Australian Quarterly11 min readPoverty & Homelessness
Divided Cities, Divided Countries
ARTICLE BY: Professor Frank Stilwell Then and now: Social Inequality It was 44 years ago that Frank Stilwell first wrote forAQon the topic of Spatial Inequality. To see how much (or how little) has changed,AQis making Frank’s 1973 article available t
AQ: Australian Quarterly7 min readGender Studies
Social Enterprise in Australia: The Need for a Social Innovation Ecosystem
ARTICLE BY: DR CHRIS MASON For example, reductions in government funding for essential services, many of which deal directly with social and economic inequalities, often require organisations to do more with less. Certainly, not too long ago, the Aus
AQ: Australian Quarterly11 min readPoverty & Homelessness
Trends in Income Inequality in Australia
ARTICLE BY: PROFESSOR PETER WHITEFORD As late as 1967, prime minister Harold Holt could say that he knew of no other free country where “what is produced by the community is more fairly and evenly distributed among the community” than it was in Austr
AQ: Australian Quarterly11 min read
Dreaming Big Empowerment by Design
ARTICLE BY: JANE SLOANE It’s easy to tell that Hermy and Tamara Munnich are mother and daughter with their flashing smiles and tendency to finish each other’s sentences. Seileshia Calma-Goodrem has a serenity about her that belies her youth – quietly
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‘The Intervention’
‘The Intervention’ was the shorthand name given to The Northern Territory National Emergency Response introduced by Prime Minister Howard in 2007. The Intervention was enacted as a series of swift Federal government actions in response to allegations
AQ: Australian Quarterly2 min readDiscrimination & Race Relations
Its' The Economic Stupid!
The popular definition of inequality relies heavily on materialistic differences. Yet when viewed as systemic, rather than materialistic, the question becomes how to interpret the effects of inequality as symptoms of unfair systems – systems that gen

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