Sue Olney
In today’s analysis, Megan Elias discusses the impact of recent reforms to abortion law in Western Australia. Megan is a women’s and sexual health professional based in Boorloo, working across government and the not-for-profit sector. Megan is WA representative and Secretary for the Australian Women’s Health Network (@AusWomensHealth).
Read MoreIn today’s post, CR Byrne draws on her experience to explore how Australia’s welfare system creates barriers to support for people with chronic illness and disability. CR Byrne is an activist and photographer.
Read MoreWomen experience greater barriers to achieving financial wellbeing than men. In today’s analysis, David Prior and Imogen Morgan of Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (@GoodShepANZ) and Michael Joyce from Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP) explore how existing workforce gender inequalities were magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role employers can play in supporting their employees’ financial wellbeing.
Read MoreThe sheer scale of placement breakdown and change for children in care in the UK has gathered increasing attention in recent years. We know that children and young people in residential care are more likely to experience placement breakdown and movement, often due to entering care later in adolescence, or being placed children’s homes which are inappropriate to meet their needs as a short term or emergency measure. It has also been noted that private residential placements can pose significant financial costs to local authority children’s services. In this blog, Helen Woods argues that it is vital then to consider what contributes to the success or failure of a residential placement.
Read MoreAustralia’s health system is complex web of health services provided by government, the private sector and the non-for-profit sector. As our understanding of deferred and unmet need evolves following the shocks to the Australian health system as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, questions arise as to the contribution and sustainability of private health insurance. How might consumer behaviours change as we continue to head into dark economic waters? How will State and Commonwealth Governments respond? Can this dead cat continue to bounce? Stephen Gow with Open Advisory Services examines recent private health insurance trends and provokes critique of assumptions for the future.
Read MoreCapturing the consumer voice by integrating the breadth and depth of lived experience is the fundamental to responsive social policy.
How can we listen, acknowledge, and honour the voice of our diverse communities, including those in the community that are living in crisis yet whose insights can reveal fundamental cracks in the system not otherwise observable by those that work in it? Is an interview or a focus group enough? Can one’s story be covered across the language divide in 30 minutes or do we need 60 minutes?
Ela Stewart with InTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence explores some of the nuance required to assure a fundamental respect for those with which partners seek to engage.
Read MoreExploration of some of the fundamental issues and opportunities to strengthen medicines access for Pacific Island Countries
Read MoreIn the wake of the budget, the Antipoverty Centre asked people on Centrelink payments – the real social policy experts – for their reactions. A contributor shared how he and other carers performing unpaid labour save the government money, and another describes the devastating impact of the failure to raise the JobSeeker rate on welfare recipients.
Read MoreIn the wake of the budget, the Antipoverty Centre asked people on Centrelink payments – the real social policy experts – for their reactions. One said “This budget is democide. This is social murder. They cannot claim ignorance of the deaths that keeping the welfare rate below the poverty line will cause. A number of them have even said during parliament that the rate is far too low to survive on, but when it comes time to change it they chose not to.
Read MoreAfter the 2022 Federal Government budget, The Antipoverty Centre asked people on Centrelink payments – the real social policy experts – for their reactions. One example: “This budget is an exercise in austerity & cruelty for the poorest, most vulnerable Australians, but for the wealthiest Australians it's an exercise in government handouts.’
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