Brianna Delahunty
Temporary work should be a pathway to dignity and opportunity — not a source of risk. In this important piece, Ananya Doundiyal shows how visa settings, employer dependency, and weak enforcement create conditions where wage theft, coercion, and sexual harassment thrive — especially in feminised sectors like care, cleaning, hospitality, and horticulture.
Read MoreAustralia’s immigration system should be a source of safety — not another barrier — for women seeking protection from domestic and family violence. In this powerful piece focused on how immigration status shapes access to support for Chinese women, Manjin Zhang shines a light on how visa status can be exploited as a tool of control and why many temporary migrants are locked out of the very supports meant to keep them safe.
Read MoreVulcana Circus is a not-for-profit arts and recreation organisation that works with the circus traditions of inclusiveness, strength, excitement and courage to transform and empower individuals and communities. In this week’s post, they argue for greater recognition of the role of artistic and creative practices in achieving health and wellbeing outcomes.
Read MoreThe Ngulluk Moort, Ngulluk Boodja, Ngulluk Wirin (Our Family, Our Country, Our Spirit) Study is working with the leadership and staff at foster care agencies and community members to provide information about cultural connection, and cultural activity and resources for Aboriginal children living in non-Aboriginal care arrangements. In today’s post, they report on the outcomes of ‘The Truth of Our Stories’ , a cultural training workshop with a focus on truth-telling.
Read MoreIn today’s post, Cordelia Attenborough and Elroy Dearn from RMIT University give insight into the history of public housing in Victoria. This blog is written in the context of the Inquiry into the redevelopment of Melbourne’s public housing towers
Read MoreProfessor Hannah Badland from RMIT University explores why neighbourhoods matter for the health of children with disability, an area largely overlooked in Australian disability policy. This blog draws on an article published this week by Hannah and colleagues from RMIT University, which shows that Australian disability policy does not capture the complexity of this issue.
Read MoreIn their new article for a special issue of the Australian Economic Review, Sharon Bessell, Cadhla O’Sullivan, Trevor Rose, Megan Lang and Talia Avrahamzon, discuss the need for a child-centred measurement of poverty in Australia.
Read MoreHealth has often been a peripheral consideration in the development of climate policies despite climate measures having a material impact on health outcomes. In today’s post, VicHealth Research Impact Grant recipients Annabelle Workman and Kathryn Bowen, both of the Melbourne Climate Futures at the University of Melbourne, share their findings on addressing barriers and meeting needs through the co-design of ‘healthier’ climate policy development.
You can access the toolkit here: healthier climate policies toolkit.
Read MoreWe rely on the public service to implement sweeping policy decisions and reform – but we have had some recent examples of what can go wrong when the decision-makers don’t get it quite right. In today’s blog, Andrew Joyce and Fiona Buick share insights from their examination of how the NDIS was rolled out. Interviews identified key points where the decision-making process could have been more robust. The authors reflect on what the public service could learn from this case study.
Read MoreIt’s long been known that green spaces can improve our wellbeing, but in today’s post Rongbin Xu, Tingting Ye and Yumin Guo, all of the Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) unit at Monash University, share their research which demonstrates the emerging understanding of how green spaces protect our physical health as well. Such findings point to the importance of green spaces as planning and policy priorities.
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