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Child Welfare, Taxation, Unemployment, Youth, Housing, Welfare and the Handicapped, the Social Wage, Ageing CONTENTS FROM THE ACTING DIRECTOR 1 SWRC SEMINARS, SESSION 2 2 SWRC SEMINAR REPORTS, SESSION 1 3 EXTERNAL SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS BY SW RC STAFF 8 ASPAA CONFERENCE PAPERS 11 PROGRESS REPORT ON CHILD AND FAMILY WELFARE 16 SWRC PUBLICATIONS LIST AND ORDER FORM 19 NEW SWRC REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS 24 NEW SW RC PROJECTS 26 NEW BOOKS 27 SUBJECT GUIDE TO SWRC PUBLICATIONS 33 REGISTERED BY AUSTRALIA POST - PUBLICATION NO. NBP4766 1 From the Acting Director · •• It appears that the interest in social Bearing the Burden of Unemployment ­ policy and social welfare issues and Unequally, analyses the data on unemp­ the demand for relevant information loyment from the 1981 Census and links are greater than ever. The mailing the data to households (see p.24). list for our Newsletter which now The analysis shows how the impact of has well over 2500 names and addresses unemployment affects some forms of has been growing with each issue. households to a much greater degree The demand for our research reports than others, and how that effect may be has been continously on the increase, compounded by other factors such as and we have had to reprint many of household income, housing and household the reports. The demand comes not only composition. from Australia but also from other countries. It seems there is interest Our first graduate scholar, David Wiles, overseas in what happens here on the has completed his study for the Ph.D. social welfare scene - recently, for degree. His thesis, Pensioners, Life example, we received an order for all Chances and Social Policy in Australia. the Centre's publications from Japan. provides a valuable and interesting insight into the lives of pensioners as Some issues which had been raised well as into their own perceptions of in our earlier reports have now become their position in society. The thesis 'topical' because of the current is based on a series of in-depth inter­ concerns and debates on taxation, views with pensioners and subsequent occupational welfare, services for analysis (see p.25). David is now the aged, and services for children seeking employment in services for and families. This suggests that the aged and he has our best wishes the research programme of the Centre for a successful and fruitful working developed in the earlier years had life. We also hope that he will find a 'forward look', indicating certain time to write an abridged version trends in the Australian society of his study so that we can make it which have now grown into national available to a wider readership. significance. The series of monthly seminars for Although the Social Welfare Research Session 11, 1985, has now started Centre is located in Sydney, we and we will provide summaries of endeavour to maintain interest in presented papers in the next issue issues of national importance. of the Newsletter. In the meantime, Apart from participating in national our Publications and Information conferences we also collect data from Officer,Rosemary Hooke will supply all States and maintain an interchange any information. Also, we are of information. At present, we have thinking of arranging a one-day two research projects that are seminar towards the end of the year conducted interstate by commissioned on the subject of Income and Social researchers and we plan to commission Security and we will advise the at least one more project interstate readers of details when these have this financial year. These are not been finalized. large projects as our resources are limited, but they enable us to keep a nationwide input of data into our research programmes. Report No.53 in the SW RC Reports and Adam Jamrozik Proceedings series is at the printers Acting Director. and should be available soon. The report, with a title: 2 ~ Social \l\elfare Research Centre ~ THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES ~ THE 1985 SEMINARS Session 2 , August to November VENUE: Morven Brown Seminar Room 212 TIME: 9.15am to 12.30pm (Fridays) TOPICS: Friday, August 9: YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH POLICIES Adam Jamrozik, Social Welfare Research Centre. Research in Youth Policy: A Criticsl Appraisal. Marion Dun lop, Policy Coordination Unit. Department of Community Services, Canberra. Social Welfsre and Youth Policy. Friday, September 13: TRADE UNIONS, ETHNIC MINORITIES AND SOCIAL WELFARE Loucas Nicolaou, Social Welfare Research Centre, The Position of Immigrant Workers in Australian Unions: Implications for Social Welfare. Alan Matheson, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Melbourne, Trade Unions. Workers and Welfare: Current Develop­ _nts in Ensuring the Rights of Migrant Workers. Friday, October 11: HUMAN IMPACT OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING: JOBS, EDUCATION AND FAMILY POLICY Ken Polk, University of Melbourne, Jobs. Educstion and Youth Alienation: the New Marginality. David Tait, Social Welfare Research Centre, Jobs and Poverty: the Changing Face of Sydney. Friday, November 15: UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY Joan Vipond. Social Welfare Research Centre, The Impact of Unemployment on Inc08es. Knut Halvorsen, Norwegian College of Public Administration and Social Work, Oslo, Norway, Theoreticsl and Methodologicsl Proble-s in Studying the Individual Consequences of Unelllploy_nt. 3 SWRC SEMINAR REPORTS, SESSION 1 In this section we provide summaries of seminars conducted by the Social Welfare Research Centre. Those held to date, and reported in this issue, are: 3. Changing Concepts of the 'Family' in Social Policy, May 10, David Tait (SWRC) , 4. Income, Taxation, Social Security and Consumption Patterns, June 7, Ann Harding, Development Division, Department of Social Security, Canberra Tax and Social Security. Russell Ross, Department of Economics, The University of Sydney; Visiting Fellow, SWRC Consumption Patterns and the Growth of Two-Earner Families. Please note that seminar papers are not available unless specified. was seen as a range of lifestyles 3. THE FAMILY potentially providing support for its members, opportunities for IN SOCIAL POLICY personal growth, and a refuge from the harsh realities of the capitalist In a paper entitled Decoding the society. Notion of the 'Family' in Social Policy, Dr. David Tait put forward Dr. Tait argued that his purpose of a view that the 'family' was at the raising these issues was not to take heart of the debate on social policy a normative stance but to identify administration and research but the the different interests involved in concept of the 'family', although the institution of the family, their seemingly self-evident, was not clear. purposes and strategies used. He He suggested that the family should then traced various changes in the not be perceived as an object like perceptions as well as the structure a tax package but a terrain on which of the family over time, and attempted different groups struggled for to demonstrate the consistency of positions and advantages. certain issues, despite the changes, such as respectability, and property. The institution of the family was This was certainly the case in a sort of battlefield. In some views Australia since the early days of the the family was held up as a guardian colonial settlement. The 'family of traditional values and a foundation wage' introduced in 1907 was an of an ordered society, as well as example of a decision to support the a source of preservation. Others saw traditional notion of the family. the family as an institution of sanctions and often of repressive In conclusion, Dr. Tait argued that relationships. Yet in another and in order to understand social policies rather optimistic view the family which claimed to support the family 4 SWRC SEMINAR REPORTS there was a need to identify the exceeding their income and that particular elements that made up a further work was required before more 'family policy'. Also, it was precise estimates of dissaving could necessary to ask what particular be made. political and economic interests were involved in, or associated with, the At every income level families with elements that constituted any such children were likely to be more policy. severely affected by a major shift to a consumption tax than those with­ out, first, because of their different consumption patterns, and second, 4. TAX I SOCIAL SECURITY because they spent more and saved AND CONSUMPTION less of their income or because they dissaved more heavily than those without children. In the White Pape~ The first paper at the seminar increases in family allowances which discussed the compensation proposals were twice the estimated CPI increases for a new consumption tax, contained were proposed, to provide some extra in the Government's Draft White Paper compensation for those with children. on Tax Reform which had been released earlier in the week. Ann Harding, Particular problems were still Assistant Director of the Taxation presented by families with children and Distributional Analysis Section whose incomes fell below the in the Department of Social Security 'compensation thresholds', and thus explained that many taxpayers would did not pay enough income tax to be not pay enough tax for their new fully compensated for their new consumption tax burden to be fully indirect tax burdens by income tax offset by income tax cuts. Based cuts. To overcome this, the White on the White Paper estimate that the Paper proposed increases in the rate proposed 'Option C' would produce of Family Income Supplement (FIS), a CPI increase of 6.5 percent, single and adjustments to the FIS income taxpayers with incomes below $6080 test. and single income married couples with children with incomes below Two other groups who could have faced $11530 could not be fully compensated extra indirect tax payments if there for their extra indirect tax payments were a major shift to a consumption by income tax changes. As a result, tax, but not benefitted fully if at the White Paper proposed a package all, from income tax cuts, yet who of measures to protect such low income were also currently ineligible for earners.
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