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Keywords: Housing Crisis

  • AUSTRALIA

    A helping hand

    • Beth Doherty
    • 08 May 2006

    Beth Doherty examines the response by governments and charities to poverty in Australia

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Gil Maclean, John Brawley, Allan James Thomas
    • 08 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Somersault,Catwoman and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Beginning of the end

    • Troy Bramston
    • 29 April 2006

    Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Sniffing at tragedy

    • Graham Ring
    • 21 April 2006

    Aboriginal communities across central Australia, struggling with the scourge of petrol sniffing, have been told it’s their problem—fix it.  

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    John Falzon

    • John Falzon

    Dr John Falzon is Senior Fellow, Inequality and Social Justice at Per Capita. He is a sociologist, poet and social justice advocate and was national CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia from 2006 to 2018. He is a member of the Australian Services Union. He has written and spoken widely on the structural causes of marginalisation and inequality in Australia and has long been an advocate for a fairer and more equitable society. John has worked in academia, in research and advocacy with NGOs, and in community development in large public housing estates. He was a participant in the 2020 Summit, has served on the ACOSS Board as well as on Government advisory committees such as the Communi

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