Appendix 3 - Bibliography
The following reports, books and articles have been accessed
by the Committee during this inquiry. The list does not purport to be a
comprehensive bibliography on poverty. A number of submissions, especially from
the major agencies, also included bibliographies. A list of useful websites is
provided at the end of the Appendix.
General
Anglicare, Food Insecurity – A Welfare Agency Perspective,
November 2003
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Income and Welfare,
'Poverty and Deprivation in Australia', special article, Year Book Australia
1996
Australian Council of Social
Service (ACOSS) –
'Research Compendium: Poverty and
Inequality in Australia', ACOSS Info 314, 20 November 2001
'Fairness and Flexibility: reform of workforce age social security
payments in Australia', Paper 129, September 2003
'Australians Living on the Edge: Survey of the Community
Services Sector', Paper 125, January 2003
Hidden Unemployment in Australia, November
2003
Generating Jobs: Fifteen Strategies for Reducing Unemployment
in Australia, October 2001
Australian Institute of Family
Studies (AIFS) –
'Aboriginal Australians and poverty: issues of
measurement', Janet Taylor, Family Matters no.35, August 1993
'Low Pay and Family Poverty: Tracing the Links', Tony Eardley,
Family Matters no.51, Spring/Summer 1998
'Regional Disadvantage and Unemployment', Christine Kilmartin,
Family Matters no.37, April 1994
'Taxation and family income', Lucy
Sullivan, Family Matters no.54, Spring/Summer 1999
Baker M, 'Full Steam towards full employment', Australian
Options, Summer 2002
Bessant J, 'The Politics of Official Talk about Welfare
Reform in Australia', Just Policy, No 28, December 2002
Bray JR, 'Hardship in Australia: An analysis of financial
stress indicators in the 1998-99 Australian Bureau of Statistics Household
Expenditure Survey', FaCS Occasional Paper No 4, 2001
Brotherhood of St Laurence –
'Poverty', Information sheet no.1, July 2002
'Income support and poverty', Information sheet no.2, July
2002
'Poverty line update', Information sheet no.3, July 2002
'Unemployment and poverty', Information sheet no.4, July
2002
'The Invisible Australians: Conceptions of Poverty in Australia',
paper presented to the 7th AIFS Conference, July 2000
'Making Australia a poverty-free
zone', 2002 Sambell Oration, Father Nic Frances, October 2002
'No child...' Child poverty in Australia, McClelland A,
2000
Eleven Plus Life chances and family income, Taylor
J & Fraser A, 2003
Buchanan J & Pocock B, 'Responding to Inequality Today:
Eleven Theses Concerning the Redesign of Policies and Agents for Reform', Journal
of Industrial Relations, Vol 44, No 1, March 2002, pp.108-135
Carroll L, 'Poverty reduction: the Australian approach', Development
Bulletin, July 2001
Colvin K, The Women and Poverty Report: 'More than
half-less than equal', VCOSS, October 2001
Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Poverty in Australia:
First Main Report, April 1975
Cox J, 'The Poverty Line Revisited', Agenda, Vol 9,
No 2, 2002, pp.99-111
Dawkins P, Gregg P & Scutella R, 'The Growth of Jobless
Households in Australia', The Australian Economic Review, vol 35, no 2,
pp.133-54, 2002
Department of Industry, Tourism & Resources, Key
Demographic and Labour Market Trends in Australia during the
1990s, 2002
Dunne L, 'Is poverty increasing or decreasing?', The
Adelaide Review, Feb 2002, No 221, p.14
Dusseldorp Skills Forum, How Young People are Faring, Key
Indictors 2003
Fincher R & Nieuwenhuysen J eds, Australian Poverty:
Then and Now, Melbourne University Press, 1998.
Fincher R & Saunders P, Creating unequal futures?
Rethinking poverty, inequality and disadvantage, Allen & Unwin, 2001.
Gregory RG, 'Its full-time jobs that matter', Australian
Journal of Labour Economics, vol 5, no 2, June 2002
Henman P, 'Myths of Welfare Reform', Australian Journal
of Social Issues, No l37, No.1, February 2002
Independent Review of Breaches and Penalties in the
Social Security System (Pearce Review), Making it Work, 2002
Industry Commission, Charitable Organisations in Australia,
Report No 45, 16 June 1995
James R, Socioeconomic Background and Higher Education
Participation: An analysis of school students' aspirations and expectations,
DEST, April 2002
Kelly S, 'Simulating Future Trends in Wealth Inequality',
Paper presented at the 2002 Australian Conference of Economists, October 2002
Leeder S, 'Achieving equity in the Australian healthcare
system', Medical Journal of Australia, Vol 179
Lyons M, Third sector: the contribution of nonprofit and
cooperative enterprises in Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2001
Marginson S, Pathways to Failure: The Educational
Disadvantage of Children from Low-income Families, The Ronald Henderson
Research Foundation, Monash University, Melbourne 2002
McClelland A, 'Mutual Obligation and the Welfare
Responsibilities of Government', Australian Journal of Social Issues,
Vol 37(3), August 2002
Mitchell D, 'Participation and opportunity: Redefining
social security in Australian and New Zealand', International Social
Security Review, Vol 55, 4/2002
National Centre for Social and
Economic Modelling (NATSEM) –
'A portrait of child poverty in Australia in 1995-96',
Paper presented at the 6th AIFS Conference, Melbourne, 26 November 1998
'An Introduction to Poverty Measurement Issues', Greenwell
H, Lloyd R & Harding A, Discussion Paper No 55, December 2001
'Ancillary and Specialist Health Services: Does Low Income
Limit Access?', Discussion Paper No 22, June 1997
'Financial Disadvantage in Australia – 1999: The Unlucky
Australians?', Harding A & Szukalska A, A report commissioned by The Smith
Family, November 2000
'Financial Disadvantage in Australia 1990 to 2000: the
persistence of poverty in a decade of growth', Harding A, Lloyd R &
Greenwell H, A report commissioned by The Smith Family, November 2001
'Is it worth working now?
Financial incentives for working mothers under Australia's new tax system',
Paper presented to the 2003 Australian Social Policy Conference, 9 July 2003
'Social Policy Matters: The Changing Face of Child Poverty
in Australia, 1982 to 1997-98', Harding A & Szukalska A, Paper presented to
the 7th AIFS Conference, July 2000
'The Costs of Children in
Australia Today', Paper presented to the AIFS Conference, Melbourne, 13 February 2003
'Trends in Child Poverty in Australia: 1982 to 1995-96',
Discussion Paper No 42, April 1999
'Worlds Apart: Postcodes with the
Highest and Lowest Poverty Rates in Today's Australia', presented to National
Social Policy Conference, Sydney, July 2001
Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library, 'The Poor in
Australia: Who Are They and How Many Are There?', Current Issues e-brief 22 August 2002, www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/SP/poverty.htm
Preston A, 'The changing Australian labour market:
developments during the last decade', Australian Bulletin of Labour,
vol.27, no.3, September 2001
Productivity Commission, Independent Review of the Job
Network, June 2002
Rothman S & McMillan J, 'Influences on Achievement in
Literacy and Numeracy', Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, Research Paper
36, ACER, October 2003
Saunders P, Welfare and Inequality: National and
International Perspectives on the Australian Welfare State, Cambridge University
Press, 1994
Saunders P, 'The deserving Poor: Changing community views on
the causes of poverty', Australian Social Monitor, Vol 5, No 2, May 2002
Saunders P, 'It's Official: Inequality is Increasing Again' Impact,
Spring 2003
Saunders P, 'Poor Statistics: Getting the Facts Right About
Poverty in Australia', Centre for Independent Studies, Issue Analysis,
no 23, 3 April 2002
Saunders P & Tsumori K, Poverty in Australia:
Beyond the Rhetoric, Centre for Independent Studies, Policy Monograph 57,
2002
Steering Committee for the
Review of Government Service Provision, Report on Australian Government
Services 2004, Productivity Commission, 2004
Senate Community Affairs
References Committee, Report on Public Dental Services, May 1998
Senate Community Affairs
References Committee, Healing our Hospitals: Report on Public
Hospital Funding, December 2000
Senate Employment, Workplace
Relations and Education References Committee, Hacking Australia's
future: Threats to institutional autonomy, academic freedom and student choice
in higher education, November 2003
Senate Employment, Workplace
Relations and Education References Committee, Bridging the Skills Divide,
November 2003
Senate Select Committee on
Medicare, Medicare – Healthcare or Welfare?, October 2003
Senate Select Committee on
Medicare, MedicarePlus: the Future for Medicare?, February 2004
Social Policy Research Centre
(SPRC) Discussion Papers –
'Unpacking Inequality: Wage Incomes, Disposable Incomes and
Living Standards', Peter Saunders, No 63, December 1995
'A Challenge to Work and Welfare: Poverty in Australia in
the 1990s', Peter Saunders, No 64, December 1995
'Defining Poverty and Identifying the Poor: Reflections on
the Australian Experience', Peter Saunders, No 84, June 1998
'Household Budgets and Income Distribution over the Longer
Term: Evidence for Australia', Peter Saunders, No 89, October 1998
'Working but Poor? Low Pay and Poverty in Australia', Tony Eardley,
No 91, November 1998
'The Direct and Indirect Effects
of Unemployment on Poverty and Inequality', Peter Saunders, No 118, December
2002
Social Welfare Policy Secretariat (SWPS), Report on
Poverty Measurement, AGPS, 1981
Solas J, 'The War on Poverty in Australia', Just Policy,
No 27, August 2002
The Smith Family –
'Getting Poverty Back onto the Policy Agenda', Saunders P,
Briefing paper No.10, March 2002
'The unlucky Australians? The launch of The Smith
Family/NATSEM report on financial disadvantage in Australia', Zappala G &
Green V, Briefing paper No.8, March 2001
'The Smith Family's Learning
for Life program a decade on: Poverty and Educational disadvantage',
Zappala G & Parker B, Background Paper No.1, 2000
'School to adult life transitions
through work and study: A select review of the literature', Smyth C, Zappala G
& Considine G, Background Paper No.4, 2002
Youth Unemployment in
Australia: a contextual, governmental and organisational perspective, Muir
K with Maguire A, Slack-Smith D & Murray M, A report by the The Smith
Family for the AMP Foundation, November 2003
St Vincent de Paul Society –
'Greed, Poverty and
Compassion: Where to Australia?', October 2002
'The "Hidden Faces" of Poverty: Identifying
Poverty Issues in Australia', 2000
'Two Australias: Addressing Inequality and
Poverty', May 2001
Teese R & Polesel J, Undemocratic Schooling: equity
and quality in mass secondary education in Australia, Melbourne
University Press, 2003
Travers P & Robertson F, Relative Deprivation among
DSS Clients, Flinders University of SA, Adelaide, 1996
Tsumori K, Saunders P & Hughes H, 'Poor Arguments: A
Response to the Smith Family Report on Poverty in Australia', Centre for
Independent Studies, Issue Analysis no.21, 16 January 2002
Watson I, et.al., Fragmented Futures: New Challenges
in Working Life, Federation Press, 2003
Watson I, 'Kennett's industrial relations legacy: impact of
deregulation on minimum pay rates in Victoria', Journal of Industrial Relations,
vol.43, no.3, September 2001
Watts M, 'Wages and wage determination in 2001', Journal
of Industrial Relations, vol.44, no. 2, June 2002
Whiteford P & Angenent G, 'The Australian system of
social protection – an overview', FaCS Occasional Paper No.6, 2001
Yenchen D & Porter L, A Just and Sustainable Australia,
Melbourne, September 2001
Children
Adelman L, 'Role Reversal: Child
Poverty in Australia and Britain', SPRC Newsletter, No.84, October 2003
Bradbury B & Jantii M, 'Child
Poverty across Industrialized Nations', Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic
and Social Policy series, No.71, 1999
Bradbury B, 'Child Poverty: A review',
Social Policy Research Centre, Report No 3/03, November 2003
Business Council of Australia, The
Cost of Dropping Out: the Economic Impact of Early School Leaving, January
2003
Demosthenous H, Bouhours T &
Demosthenous C, 'Socioeconomic status and youth aggression in Australia', Youth
Studies Australia, v.21, n.4, 2002.
'Family tax benefit fails to relieve
child poverty', Impact, August 2001.
Gregory RG, 'Children and the
Changing Labour Market: Joblessness in Families with Dependent Children',
Centre for Economic Policy Research ANU, Discussion Paper No.406, August 1999
Task Force on Child Development,
Health and Wellbeing, Towards a National Agenda for Early Childhood – What
you told us, October 2003
UnitingCare Burnside, Because
Children Matter: Making a case for addressing child poverty in Australia,
June 2003
Disablity
Abello D & Chalmers J, 'Disabling
Employment Policy', Symposium: The 2002-03 Federal Budget
Sherry M, 'Welfare Reform and
Disability Policy in Australia', Just Policy, No.28, December 2002
Indigenous
Bell D, 'How to Treat Chronic disease
in indigenous Australians', Australian Doctor, 14 June 2002
Costello S, Berry M & Briskman L,
'Homeless Indigenous Older People', Parity, Vol 15, Issue 10
Gray MC & Hunter BH, 'A Cohort
Analysis of the Determinants of Employment and Labour Force Participation:
Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians, 1981 to 1996', The University of
Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, 2002
Hunter B, 'Three nations, not one:
indigenous and other Australian poverty', Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy
Research ANU, CAEPR Working Paper No1/1999
Hunter B, Kennedy S & Biddle N,
'One size fits all?: The effect of equivalence scales on Indigenous and other
Australian poverty', CAEPR Working Paper No.19/2002
Ross R & Whiteford P, 'Poverty in
1986: Aboriginal Families with Children', Australian Journal of Social
Issues, Vol.27, No.2, May 1992
Taylor J, 'Aboriginal Australians and
Poverty: Issues of Measurement', Family Matters, No.35, August 1993
Homelessness
Chamberlain C & MacKenzie D, Counting
the Homeless 2001, ABS, November 2003
Crane M & Warnes A, 'Preventing
Homelessness Among Older People: The British Experience', Parity, Vol
15, Issue 10
Crinall K, 'Is there a cause of
homelessness, or should we just focus on homelessness as a cause', Parity,
Vol 15, Issue 9
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission, Our Homeless Children: Report of the National Inquiry into
Homeless Children, 1989 (Brian Burdekin, Chairman)
Matheson, 'Too Many Homeless', Parity,
Vol 15, Issue 9
Watson S, 'Revisiting one of the causes
of homelessness', Impact, December 2002
Housing
AHURI, On the Margins? Housing
Risk among Caravan Park Residents, August 2003
Bradbury B & Chalmers J, 'Housing,
location and employment', AHURI, July 2002
Ministerial Council on Consumer
Affairs, Residential Tenancy Databases – Issues Paper, November 2003
Senate Community Affairs References
Committee, Report on Housing Assistance, December 1997
Rural and
regional
Australian Catholic Social Welfare
Commission, 'A Litany of Disadvantage: Rural Communities of Australia',
Discussion Paper No 15, 2000
Bray JR, 'Social indicators for
regional Australia', FaCS Policy Research Paper No 8, 2000
WEBSITES
Many
of the research and policy papers referred to above and other information may
be accessed from the following websites
Anglicare www.anglicare.org.au
Australian Council of Social
Service (ACOSS) www.acoss.org.au
Australian Federation of
Homelessness Organisations (AFHO) www.afho.org.au
Australian Institute of Family
Studies (AIFS) www.aifs.org.au
Brotherhood of St Laurence www.bsl.org.au
Jesuit Social Services www.jss.org.au
Mission Australia www.mission.com.au
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) www.natsem.canberra.edu.au
National Rural Health Alliance www.ruralhealth.org.au/nrhapublic/
The Smith Family www.smithfamily.com.au
Social Policy Research Centre
(SPRC) www.sprc.unsw.edu.au
St Vincent de Paul Society www.vinnies.org.au
UnitingCare Australia www.unitingcare.org.au
Centre for Economic and Social
Inclusion (UK) www.cesi.org.uk
Combat Poverty Agency (Ireland)
www.combatpoverty.ie
Institute for Research on Poverty
(USA) www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp
Monitoring Poverty and Social
Exclusion (UK) www.poverty.org.uk
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