Category: Australian politics
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Vulnerable or Resilient? It’s all in how you talk about it
The language we use frames our thoughts and is shaped by them. Using different words to describe the same thing can urge us to consider it very differently. “Vulnerable” is a dangerous word when it is used, to create a category of people.
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What if everyone had to live in households of no less than 3?
Who do you live with? Is it your choice? What if the government said that, to solve the housing crisis, everyone had to live in households of no less than three?
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The rental crisis brings group-home style living to tenants in 2024
Affordable housing is on offer that pushes non-disabled people to experience some of the same dynamics as group-homes.
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Where are we headed under a “new, values-based capitalism”?
When “well-being” got a mention in the October 2022 budget, I felt a bit more hopeful ..The treasurer says he wants to build “a new, values-based capitalism” to better address disadvantage and help make communities more resilient. The idea of a “new, values-based capitalism” perplexes me.
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Why Australia’s unemployment rate will get stuck on the way down (& how to grease the track)
Australia is experiencing a job’s boom – or so we’re told. The official unemployment rate is lower than it’s been in years. That’s good, right? The trouble is, the government is only telling the parts of the story that make them look good as we hurtle towards the next federal election. There’s some sleight of…
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