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Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Research

Social Security Journal - 1998 Issue No.1

Contents

Special Section on Poverty Research and Budget Standards Project

Loucas Nicolaou, 'Introduction: recent poverty research and DSS - an overview of the Adequacy Project'

Peter Saunders, 'Reflections on the Australian poverty debate'

Marion Terrill and Ian Brodie-Reed, 'It's not just about money - a project to examine living standards'

Peter Saunders, 'Development and application of indicative budget standards for Australia'

Paul Henman, 'Making real assumptions of the Budget Standards Project: the strengths and weaknesses for policy work'

Peter Whiteford and Paul Henman, 'Assessing budget standards: conceptual issues in the treatment of durables'

William Mudd, 'A standard rent: context and considerations'

Paul Henman, 'Different assumptions, different scenarios: extending and developing SPRC's budget standards'


Social Security Notes

Lara Purdy, 'Improving lifestyles: The More Intensive and Flexible Services Pilot'


Book Reviews

Judith Healy, Welfare Options: Delivering Social Services
Reviewer: Allison Barnes

Hugh Mackay, Generations: Baby Boomers, their Parents and their Children
Reviewer: John Murray

OECD, The Battle Against Exclusion
Reviewer: Graeme Grant

Patricia Thornton and Neil Lunt, Employment Policies for Disabled People in Eighteen Countries: A Review
Reviewer: Ann Raj

Chris Chamberlain and David MacKenzie, Youth Homelessness: Early Intervention and Prevention
Reviewers: Philip Brown and Vicki Wagner


Social Security Statistics

Project Notes

Selective Bibliography on Social Security Issues