Raising children in the lucky country: Understanding the income penalty and poverty at childbirth
Raising children in the lucky country: Understanding the income penalty and poverty at childbirth

For Anti-Poverty Week 2023, Dr Ana Gamarra Rondinel [@AnaGamarraRondi] Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research [@MelbInstUOM] and Life Course Centre (@lifecourseAust) and Dr Anna Price The University of Melbourne [@UniMelb] and Centre for Community Child Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute [@MCRI_for_kids] explore the interplay between first time parenthood, financial security, and early child development.

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Womens Policy Action TankLife Course CentreChildren, employment, Poverty, Gender Inequity, gender pay gap
Why Housing is Key to Understanding, and Alleviating(!), Poverty
Why Housing is Key to Understanding, and Alleviating(!), Poverty

Ensuring all Australians have a safe, secure and affordable home is an important focus of Anti-Poverty Week 2023 (15-27 October). Here, Professor Stephen Whelan from the University of Sydney School of Economics (@USydneyEcon) and Life Course Centre (@lifecourseAust) examines the current state-of-play in Australia’s housing market, its influence on experiences of poverty, and what can be done to improve the future health, welfare and dignity of all Australians.

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Policy and governanceLife Course Centrehousing and homelessness, Poverty
What research says about studying with the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)
What research says about studying with the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)

This year marked the 75th year of Australia’s Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP). It also saw the release of the largest study in the AMEP’s history to better understand participation in the program, and the AMEP’s broader impact on employment and welfare outcomes. Associate Professor Francis Mitrou and Dr Ha Nguyen from Telethon Kids Institute (@telethonkids) and Life Course Centre (@lifecourseAust) outline some of the key findings.

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Creating using evidenceLife Course Centrerefugees and asylum seekers, employment, social policy, CALD communities
Single parents and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
Single parents and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis

This year Anti-Poverty Week 2023 (15-27 October) is continuing and extending its campaign to end child poverty in Australia. To achieve this requires a strong focus on supporting families of all kinds. In today’s post Dr Alice Campbell (@ColtonCambo] of Life Course Centre (@lifecourseAust) examines the challenges and opportunities in supporting single parenting, co-parenting and post-separation families.

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Womens Policy Action TankLife Course CentreGender Inequity, family violence, Child Support, Poverty, Children
Alone Australian or collaboration for the nation we want?
Alone Australian or collaboration for the nation we want?

Dr Millie Rooney, co-director of Australia Remade and long-time contributor here at Power to Persuade, has had some great ideas for new reality TV shows, following the success of ‘Alone Australia’. The question is - do we have contestants going it alone to survive, or a team effort to re-imagine a way for everyone to thrive?

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Advocacy, Antipoverty Centre, Innovation, Issues, Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to PersuadePolicy making, media, Poverty, welfare reform, welfare conditionality, Public Servants, public service
Diversifying the gender equality lens to include migrant women
Diversifying the gender equality lens to include migrant women

In today’s post, Hyein Cho (@hyein_ellen_cho) and Marie Segrave (@MSegrave) from Monash University (@MonashUni) present a snapshot of their recently launched report on Victorian local councils and gender equality. They detail seven key findings in the report and highlight four of them here.

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Policy and governance, PoliticsPower to PersuadeGender equality, migrants, politics, government, diversity, inclusion, equality
Focus on children to improve national wellbeing
Focus on children to improve national wellbeing

Deb Tsorbaris (@DebTsorbaris), CEO of The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (@CFECFW), discusses the recently launched national wellbeing framework, Measuring What Matters, and contends that if we're serious about enhancing the wellbeing of Australians, the first place to start is with our children and young people.

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Policy and governance, AdvocacyPower to PersuadeChildren, young people, wellbeing, Social Welfare, family
When policy lessons don’t speak for themselves – a “traveller’s guide” for practitioners of policy learning
When policy lessons don’t speak for themselves – a “traveller’s guide” for practitioners of policy learning

Policy lessons don’t travel on their own - a lot goes into helping them from their place of origin to new homes (or stopping them from getting there). Drawing on research with disaster management personnel in Queensland, Dr Jenny van der Arend (@JennyvdA) and A/Prof Alastair Stark distil a ‘traveller’s guide’ of practical insights for policymakers who want to help lessons from place to place. The post is based on their new article in the Journal of European Public Policy and is free to read until October 2023.

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Policy and governance, Creating using evidencePower to PersuadePolicy making, Disaster management, implementation