Re-imagining decent work for home care workers in Australia

Re-imagining land ownership in Australia

Cape York pastoralists and Aborigines have jointly called for state and federal governments to legislate 1⁄4 a form of statutory co-existence of title on pastoral leases. 1⁄4 [A] marathon seven-hour meeting in the Queensland town of Coen last week 1⁄4 sought to address the uncertainty and ® nancial dif® culties ̄ owing to Cape York pastoralists from the Wik people’ s claim to a large area of Cap...

Decent Work in Agriculture Synopsis of the Background paper (IWSDWA/2003) International Workers’ Symposium on Decent Work in Agriculture

Home sweet home? Community care for older people in Australia.

Community care provision for older Australians is growing in places and options, based on older people's preference to stay in their own homes, coupled with its cost efficiency compared to long-term residential care. Australia's aging population, cultural diversity, and dispersed population in rural and remote areas presents significant challenges in meeting these care needs. The objective of t...

For a Psychosocial Approach to Decent Work

The notion of decent work was developed by the International Labour Organization 20 years ago. The notion is now well known by lawyers, economists, and sociologists, and even if it appears difficult to define it clearly, it constitutes a useful general framework with which to think of the relationships between policy practices, work market globalization, and human rights principles. The fields ...

1 Creating Decent Work for Young People :

More than 1 billion people today are between 15 and 25 years of age and nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population is below the age of 20. However, eighty-five per cent of young people live in developing countries where a vast majority of them are struggling to learn and work in a context of extreme poverty. According to World Bank figures, approximately 1.2 billion people struggle for surviv...