VOLUME 49 NUMBER 4 – 2014
VOLUME 49 NUMBER 4 – 2014
The AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES is published by the Australian Social Policy
Association to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for debate on significant social policy
issues. It deals with questions of social justice and social policy. Articles discuss particular
social issues, review conceptual problems, present empirical studies and debate policy
alternatives. The journal is editorially independent of the Association and the universities to
which editors and contributors are affiliated.
A price worth paying? Accountability, red tape Travers
and the regulation of affordable housing
Evidence for the use of an algorithm in resolving Christensen,
inconsistent and missing Indigenous status in Davis, Draper,
administrative data collections Mitrou, McKeown,
Lawrence, McAullay,
Pearson, Rikkers,
and Zubrick
Towards better preparation and support for health Lindeman, Dingwall
and social care practitioners conducting specialised and Bell
assessments in remote Indigenous contexts
Grandparents raising grandchildren: Purcal, Brennan,
impacts of lifecourse stage on the experiences and Cass and Jenkins
costs of care
Help or hindrance? Social policy and the ‘social Carey and
determinants of health’ Crammond
The restructuring of WA human services and its Fitzgerald, Rainnie,
implications for the not-for-profit sector Goods and Morris
Care without coercion – mental health rights, Watson, Thorburn,
personal recovery and trauma-informed care Everett and Fisher
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A price worth paying?
Accountability, red tape and the
regulation of affordable housing
Max Travers
403-422
Evidence for the use of an algorithm
in resolving inconsistent and missing
Indigenous status in administrative
data collections
Daniel Christensen, Geoff Davis, 423-443
Glenn Draper, Francis Mitrou,
Sybille McKeown, David
Lawrence, Daniel McAullay,
Glenn Pearson, Wavne Rikkers,
and Stephen Zubrick
Towards better preparation and support
for health and social care practitioners
conducting specialised assessments in
remote Indigenous contexts
Melissa Lindeman, Kylie
Dingwall and Di Bell
445-465
Grandparents raising grandchildren:
impacts of lifecourse stage on the
experiences and costs of care
Christiane Purcal,
Deborah Brennan, Bettina Cass
and Bridget Jenkins
467-488
Help or hindrance? Social policy and
the ‘social determinants of health’
Gemma Carey and
Brad Crammond
489-507
The restructuring of WA human
services and its implications for the
not-for-profit sector
Scott Fitzgerald, Al Rainnie,
Caleb Goods and Lucy Morris
509-528
Care without coercion – mental
health rights, personal recovery
and trauma-informed care
Sandy Watson, Kath Thorburn,
Michelle Everett and
Karen Raewyn Fisher
529-549
Information about authors
551-553
Notes for contributors
555-558
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Information about authors
Di Bell is a Research Associate, Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University in Alice
Springs. She has an honours degree is science and is a practising Registered Nurse.
Deborah Brennan is a Professor in the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW
Australia and adjunct Professor in the Centre for Children and Young People,
Southern Cross University. An expert in comparative welfare, family policy and
gender and politics, she is the author of The Politics of Australian Child Care
(Cambridge University Press, 1998) and of numerous scholarly articles on gender,
politics and family policy.
Gemma Carey is a public health and social policy researcher. She is currently
a Research Fellow with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population
Health, Research School of Population Health, the Australian National
University. Her research has examined the impact of social and welfare state
policies on health inequalities and political agenda setting for the social
determinants of health.
Bettina Cass is Emeritus Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Australia. She was until recently Professor (part‑time) at the Centre for Children
and Young People, Southern Cross University. Her comparative research covers
policies for family carers, formal and informal disability and elder care, child
care and grandparent care. She focuses on gendered analyses of the intersections
of families, communities, markets, and state policies. She is a Fellow of the
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Daniel Christensen is Senior Analyst at the Telethon Kids Institute.
Brad Crammond is a lecturer and PhD student with Monash University, Centre
for Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. Brad completed his Bachelor of Arts
and Bachelor of Laws (both with honours) at Monash University in 2003. He
completed his Master of Laws (International and Comparative Law) in 2008,
focusing on the intersection between public health and human rights.
Geoff Davis is the Senior Data Linkage Consultant at the Department of Health
Western Australia.
Kylie Dingwall is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health
Research in Alice Springs. She has a PhD and an honours degree in psychology,
and has a history in community services and Indigenous mental health research.
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Information about authors
Glenn Draper is Research Analyst at the Department of Health Western Australia.
Michelle Everett is a Clinical Psychologist involved in writing and teaching
regarding trauma‑informed care for the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry,
the Mental Health Co‑ordinating Council, Adults Surviving Child Abuse, and
Inside Out & Associates Australia.
Karen Raewyn Fisher is Associate Professor, Disability Research Program, Social
Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales. Her research covers
disability and mental health policy and inclusive methods in Australia and China.
Scott Fitzgerald is a Senior Lecture in the Curtin Graduate School of Business
(CGSB) at Curtin University. His research interests include managerialism,
austerity, and public sector restructuring, specifically in relation to human
services and education, and the reorganisation of cultural workers’ labour
processes within global production networks.
Caleb Goods is a Research Associate in Management and Organisations at the
University of Western Australia. His primary research interests include public
sector restructuring in human services and education, and work and workplace
responses to environmental crises.
Bridget Jenkins is a Research Associate at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW.
She conducts research into grandparent care and young people’s educational,
employment and community engagement.
David Lawrence is Senior Statistician at the Telethon Kids Institute and Research
Professor at The University of Western Australia, seconded to Telethon Kids
Institute.
Melissa Lindeman is Associate Professor in the Centre of Research Excellence
in Rural and Remote Primary Health Care, at the Centre for Remote Health,
Flinders University in Alice Springs. She has a background in social welfare,
policy, research and education, particularly in aged and community care. She is
inaugural President of the Australian Association of Gerontology NT Division.
Daniel McAullay is a Principal Research Fellow with the Kurongkurl Katitjin
Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research at Edith Cowan
University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Primary Health Care Research
Institute at the Australian National University.
Sybille McKeown is the Director of Transport, Tourism and Prices, and the
former director of the National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Francis Mitrou is Associate Program Manager and People Leader at the Telethon
Kids Institute.
Lucy Morris is CEO of Baptistcare WA and also works as an Adjunct Professor
at the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), School of Business,
Fremantle. Her research interest is primarily in the area of leadership and belief
systems within NGOs.
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Glenn Pearson is the Manager of Aboriginal Research Development, which
includes managing the Kulunga Research Network at the Telethon Kids Institute.
Glenn is a Chief Investigator in the Institute’s Centre of Research Excellence in
Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing and is completing a Doctorate at the University
of Western Australia (UWA). He is also a member of the Health Consumer
Council of WA, Curtin University’s Human Research Ethics Committee, and the
Institute’s Community and Consumer Participation Advisory Council.
Christiane Purcal is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre,
UNSW Australia. Her research focuses on the evaluation of social policy
programs in disability policy, child care, informal carer policies, and child and
family services.
Al Rainnie is a Professor of employment relations and has worked at Curtin
University, Monash University, and the University of Leicester. His research
interests include industrial relations, regional development, global production
networks theory, creative workers and cultural industries, state restructuring, and
not for profit organisations.
Wavne Rikkers is Senior Analyst and Development Manager at the Telethon Kids
Institute.
Kath Thorburn is a mental health worker and mental health education consultant
for Inside Out & Associates Australia, with experience in a range of roles and
settings and a commitment to promoting recovery oriented approaches to mental
distress.
Max Travers is a Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences at the University
of Tasmania. He is a qualitative researcher who has contributed to the fields
of social policy and criminology. Empirical studies include The Sentencing of
Children (2012) and The New Bureaucracy (2007). He is currently working on
a study about bail decision‑making, and a comparative project about regulation
and red tape.
Sandy Watson is a Consumer Academic and Consultant for Inside Out &
Associates Australia who delivers recovery and consumer perspectives about
education and training for the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Inside Out &
Associates Australia, and for other organisations in Australia.
Stephen Zubrick is a Winthrop Professor in the Centre for Child Health Research
at The University of Western Australia and is a Senior Principal Research
Fellow at The Telethon Kids Institute. He is also Deputy Director ARC Centre
of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, Chairman of the
Consortium Advisory Group for the National Longitudinal Study of Australian
Children, and a Member of the Steering Committee for the Longitudinal Study of
Indigenous Children.
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Boyd Hunter
Australian National University (ANU)
Julie Lahn
ANU
Associate Editors
Myra Hamilton
University of New South Wales
(UNSW)
Cameron Parsell
University of Queensland
Kelly Richards
Queensland University of Technology
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