Instead, these are a sequence of acquisitions that make further acquisitions more likely to occur. That people are college-educated makes it easier for them to have well-off friends who might share advice on career and financial opportunities that make building wealth easier.

Current knowledge about impacts of plantations A range of on impacts of land use change to plantation forestry have been undertaken in Australia, and it can be tempting to assume that because a study has examined social and economic issues, it has covered all the different topics listed in Figures 1 and 2.

Background 'Adverse childhood experiences' (ACEs) are increased risk of negative outcomes in later life: ACEs have consequently become a policy priority in many countries. Despite ACEs being highly socially patterned, there has been very little discussion in the political discourse regarding the role of childhood position (SEP) in understanding and addressing ...

In April 2023, the Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the 2021 Census Indexes for Areas (SEIFA). SEIFA has a long-standing history dating back to the 1971 Census and has since become a widely used measure to understand spatial trends in community advantage and disadvantage. This analysis focuses on the shifting ...

Nonetheless, the current lending schemes shall continue to augment the development, despite its apparent shortfalls. Also, the MFBs must ensure the effective and efficient provision of funds to moderate poor, and their development shall contribute towards the poverty reduction of chronic and extreme poor classes.

study examines how background affects academic performance. This study can help explain how SES affects academic guide educational policy and actions to close ...

These health disparities within the population are persistent despite considerable policy reform and efforts to improve services in recent decades7. The targets for a healthier Australia in this were developed by the Health Policy Collaboration, a national network of leading health experts and organisations.

In 2021, the overall performance of the health care system was ranked third of eleven high income countries by the Commonwealth Fund (New York), but only eighth for providing affordable, timely access to care. 1 As in other countries, the health care system has been challenged by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to the establishment of a major taskforce for ...

As the relative poverty of Aboriginal people in the context is increasingly gaining recognition, equity issues between Aboriginals and other have become matters of urgent concern for policy formation and implementation. This paper provides a statistical overview of the economic and social deprivation of the Aboriginal population as a whole by Bureau ...

Due to the limited number of empirical that focus on schools' readiness for Indigenous students, we expanded the search parameters to include non-empirical works, literature reviews, discussion papers, book chapters, two working papers from a research centre, and papers and produced by government agencies and NGOs.

Abstract. The foundations of inequities and the educational outcomes of efforts to reduce gaps in status are of great interest to researchers around the world, and ...

Abstract. The foundations of inequities and the educational outcomes of efforts to reduce gaps in status are of great interest to researchers around the world, and narrowing the gap is a common goal for most education systems. This review of the literature focuses on status (SES) and its ...

'aussie hegemony of centralising working-class masculinity in Australia: gender, class, mainstreaming and the axis of visibility in Kenny ... and invisible as the marker of normative identity. This paper examines the 'mainstream' and identities and the discourse that surrounds them, in ...

(underdog) , in colloquialism, are ordinary working-class people who persevere through their commitments despite adversity. [1] [2] Typically, this adversity comprises low pay, family problems, environmental hardships and personal recognition woes. [3] It is a term of respect and endearment intended to empower and ...

Aussie in Crisis: Shifting Constructions of White Masculinity and National Identity' Citation Bode, K 2008, Aussie in Crisis: Shifting Constructions of White Masculinity and National Identity', in Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (ed.), Creative Nation: Cinema and Cultural Reader, SSS Publications, New Delhi, pp. 337-57.

refuses to admit defeat in the face of great difficulties, and although the referent is usually a person, it does not have to be, as in this newspaper reference to the Western ...

Abstract. The traditions New Zealand Army Corps soldiers - the Anzacs - comprise an important element of the narrative. Although New Zealand soldiers did not officially become 'Anzacs' until they joined forces on the Western Front, the Anzacs are trauma of ...

Abstract This paper explores the ways in which the 'Aussie identity of the character Kenny Smyth in the film Kenny (2006) is both visible through its hegemonic status and cultural ubiquity, and invisible as the marker of normative identity. This paper examines the 'mainstream' and identities and the discourse that surrounds them, in particular looking ...

Some contemporary women's fictions, like Jillian Watkinson's The Architect, resolve this conflict by privileging of the man in crisis to the exclusion of the Aussie . Although such narratives appear to offer a more sensitive and emotional model of masculinity, closer analysis evinces the sexist, racist and homophobic undertones of this emerging phenomenon within ...

Abstract. This article explores ways in which the low-budget mockumentary film Kenny (Clayton Jacobson, 2006) evolves the figure of the , from its earlier incarnation in The Castle (Rob Sitch, 1997). A surprise hit on screens, Kenny is the quietly humorous story of a portaloo worker, one of the 'ordinary that the Howard government claimed it spoke for.

ofttimes overwhelming faced by the British settlers in the harsh environment gave rise to the archetype now known as the "Aussie ," self-reliant and fatalistic ...

Abstract. This essay examines the role of the Aussie in political rhetoric. I argue that the Aussie is a rhetorical incarnation of economic struggle, in which an Opposition utilises an ambiguity akin to dog whistling to foment and direct dissatisfaction towards an incumbent Government.

Abstract. Abstract This paper explores the ways in which the 'Aussie identity of the character Kenny Smyth in the film Kenny (2006) is both visible through its hegemonic status and cultural ubiquity, and invisible as the marker of normative identity.This paper examines the 'mainstream' and identities and the discourse that surrounds them, in particular ...