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View article: Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems
Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems Open
This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary i…
View article: Mapping Gendered Economic Abuse Across the Relationship Lifecourse: A Qualitative Meta-Ethnography
Mapping Gendered Economic Abuse Across the Relationship Lifecourse: A Qualitative Meta-Ethnography Open
Purpose In this paper, we provide a review of extant qualitative research that reports on women’s experience of economic abuse during intimate relationships and following separation. To advance understanding of the processes of economic ab…
View article: Postseparation Financial Abuse Perpetrated Through Government Systems: A Survey of Australian Mothers’ Experiences of Child Support
Postseparation Financial Abuse Perpetrated Through Government Systems: A Survey of Australian Mothers’ Experiences of Child Support Open
Financial abuse is a form of violence that can extend well beyond intimate partner relationship breakdown. A survey of 540 Australian separated parents examined how financial abuse was perpetrated, with a focus on child support and other g…
View article: Introduction to Single Parents and Child Support Systems
Introduction to Single Parents and Child Support Systems Open
This book takes a novel approach to child support policy analysis by locating the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem.While work has begun to compare child support systems across countries,…
View article: The framing of federal domestic violence policy responses
The framing of federal domestic violence policy responses Open
This paper analyzed the Australian Government’s response to the 2010 Report on Family Violence produced the by Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) which, at the time, represented one of the most significant documents framing the proble…
View article: Relationships matter: The social and economic benefits of community playgroups
Relationships matter: The social and economic benefits of community playgroups Open
This report is the major outcome of a research project that sought to analyse the social and economic value of playgroups. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, detailed in the report, the research contributes to knowledge and advo…
View article: Addressing Economic Abuse in Intimate-partner Violence Interventions: A Bacchian Analysis of Responsibility
Addressing Economic Abuse in Intimate-partner Violence Interventions: A Bacchian Analysis of Responsibility Open
Purpose Burgeoning research on intimate partner perpetrated economic abuse highlights the devastating and lasting impacts of economic exploitation, economic control, and employment sabotage, most often endured by women. Despite recognition…
View article: Housing policy and non-commercial shared housing in the private rental sector: a scoping review
Housing policy and non-commercial shared housing in the private rental sector: a scoping review Open
Shared housing in the private rental sector (PRS) is becoming a globally significant household arrangement. However, research indicates that shared housing is associated with problems including financial and housing insecurity. Given the g…
View article: Low-income women's experiences of social citizenship and social exclusion
Low-income women's experiences of social citizenship and social exclusion Open
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View article: THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF THE STRANGER AND ITS METHODOLOGICAL USE IN LITERATURE
THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF THE STRANGER AND ITS METHODOLOGICAL USE IN LITERATURE Open
This article aims to demonstrate the methodological approach I took on my research about the sociological term “Stranger” and its expression in literary terms. I deconstruct the term “Stranger”, since it was coined in 1950, analyzing socio…
View article: Understanding Covid-19 emergency social security measures as a from of basic income: Lessons from Australia
Understanding Covid-19 emergency social security measures as a from of basic income: Lessons from Australia Open
This article examines the changes in social security measures introduced by the Australian government during the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020. These measures were basic income-like in that they became both more unconditional an…
View article: Child support systems and government budgets: thorny policy choices to recover costs
Child support systems and government budgets: thorny policy choices to recover costs Open
Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA instituted child support agencies in the late 1900s and had some policies that resulted in having lowered governmental expenditures when child support was paid. Building on previous research comp…
View article: An exploratory study examining the changes to Australia’s social security system during COVID‐19 lockdown measures
An exploratory study examining the changes to Australia’s social security system during COVID‐19 lockdown measures Open
During the 2020 COVID‐19 wave, the Australian Government made an additional $550 Coronavirus Supplement available for people receiving social security payments, and temporarily suspended mutual obligation requirements. By doing so, the gov…
View article: State tactics of welfare benefit minimisation: The power of governing documents
State tactics of welfare benefit minimisation: The power of governing documents Open
This article draws on interviews with 41 Australian separated mothers, and the government forms, information and instructions used to administer their child support and benefit entitlements, to reveal four tactics through which women’s dec…
View article: Social security and time use during COVID-19
Social security and time use during COVID-19 Open
The base rates of Australia’s working-age social security payments are below the poverty line, and have been for some time. Additionally, people who receive payments are often required to undertake various ‘mutual obligations’ such as 'Wor…
View article: The Forms and Functions of Child Support Stigma
The Forms and Functions of Child Support Stigma Open
The stigmatization of single mothers who receive child support proliferates in news media, policy, and popular culture. Drawing on critical stigma literature, we examined data from interviews conducted with child support recipients in Aust…
View article: Trans, gender diverse and non-binary adult experiences of social support: A systematic quantitative literature review
Trans, gender diverse and non-binary adult experiences of social support: A systematic quantitative literature review Open
Background: Trans, gender diverse and non-binary (TGDNB) adults experience significant health disparities relative to their cisgender peers. While social support is a known health-protective factor within the general population, no systema…
View article: Negotiating ‘ideal worker’ and intensive mothering ideologies: Australian mothers’ emotional geographies during their commutes
Negotiating ‘ideal worker’ and intensive mothering ideologies: Australian mothers’ emotional geographies during their commutes Open
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to…
View article: Gender Equality Prior to and Following Separation: Nordic and Liberal Policy Inconsistencies
Gender Equality Prior to and Following Separation: Nordic and Liberal Policy Inconsistencies Open
We compare family policy in Australia and Finland, focusing on child support as interrogating how gender equality ideals and realities play out when families diverge from the dual-parent model. Despite Finland’s de-gendered leave and emplo…
View article: Technical Fixes as Challenges to State Legitimacy: Australian Separated Fathers’ Suggestions for Child Support Policy Reform
Technical Fixes as Challenges to State Legitimacy: Australian Separated Fathers’ Suggestions for Child Support Policy Reform Open
This article assesses fathers’ evidence presented to an Australian inquiry into the child support scheme. We examine these data in order to address how fathers’ proposed child support policy solutions compared against Eekelaar’s critique o…
View article: Debts and disappointment: mothers’ experiences of the child support system
Debts and disappointment: mothers’ experiences of the child support system Open
Child support typically refers to a regular cash transfer paid by a non- resident parent, exclusive of other forms of "spouse" or "matrimonial" support (International Network of Child Support Scholars 2019). In the Australian system, the c…
View article: Doing better for vulnerable young parents and their children: an exploration of how technology could catalyse system transformation
Doing better for vulnerable young parents and their children: an exploration of how technology could catalyse system transformation Open
The Swinburne research team, in conjunction with Family Life and Life Without Barriers, interviewed twelve staff and ten clients at Family Life to determine the service and information needs of vulnerable young parents who are the benefici…
View article: Autonomy, Fairness and Active Relationships: Children's Experiences of Well‐being in Childcare
Autonomy, Fairness and Active Relationships: Children's Experiences of Well‐being in Childcare Open
Researchers and policy‐makers are increasingly concerned with children's well‐being in Early Childhood Education and Care ( ECEC ) and Outside School Hours Care ( OSHC ) settings. Recent research identifies the value of using qualitative m…
View article: Australia, poverty, and the Sustainable Development Goals: a response to the Australian government’s review of its progress on the SDGs
Australia, poverty, and the Sustainable Development Goals: a response to the Australian government’s review of its progress on the SDGs Open
This publication will be released in October 2018.
View article: Child Maintenance and Social Security Interactions: the Poverty Reduction Effects in Model Lone Parent Families across Four Countries
Child Maintenance and Social Security Interactions: the Poverty Reduction Effects in Model Lone Parent Families across Four Countries Open
In most developed countries, children in lone parent families face a high risk of poverty. A partial solution commonly sought in English-speaking nations is to increase the amounts of private child maintenance paid by the other parent. How…