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• Policy submission Submission to the Senate Committee inquiry into social security and other legislation amendment bills

  February 2010

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• Policy submission Submission to the Family and Community Development Committee Inquiry into the Adequacy and Future Directions of Public Housing in Victoria

  February 2010

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• Research report Turning 18: pathways and plans

  By Janet Taylor and Nina Gee 2010

  The Life Chances Study has followed some 140 young people from diverse backgrounds since they were infants. In 2008 they turned 18: many finished school, while others were already launched into the world beyond.

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• Policy submission The contribution of the not-for-profit sector: submission in response to the draft report of the Productivity Commission

  December 2009

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• Research report Barriers to hiring disadvantaged or vulnerable workers: Victorian employers' attitudes survey

  By VECCI and Brotherhood of St. Laurence 2009

  This collaborative study explored the extent to which recruitment of low-skilled workers was a problem for employers, as well as employee work readiness, foundational skills and vocational training, and the support mechanisms to increase worker retention.

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• Research report The Brotherhood's Social Barometer: living the second fifty years

  By Helen Kimberley and Bonnie Simons 2009

  The fourth Social Barometer examines the extent of disadvantage among older Australians.

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• Research report From the margins to the mainstream: the challenges for microfinance in Australia

  By Ingrid Burkett and Genevieve Sheehan 2009

  This report of research undertaken by the Brotherhood of St. Laurence and Community Foresters Finance draws on the literature and stakeholder consultation to explore microfinance in Australia.

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• Research report Assets for all: a review of the Australian Government's $77 billion support for asset-building

  By Gerard Brody and Elizabeth McNess 2009

  The authors argue that Australia’s current asset-building policies, particularly tax concessions on housing and superannuation, enable wealthier households to further accumulate assets while doing little for poorer families.

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• Research report Cost shifting in education: implications for government, the community sector and low-income families

  By Sharon Bond 2009

  This report commissioned by the Equity in Education Alliance seeks to quantify in dollars the extent to which the Victorian community service organisations, including emergency relief providers, assist disadvantaged families to meet school education expenses.

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• Research report Tax expenditures and housing

  By Judith Yates 2009

  This paper, reporting research undertaken for the Brotherhood of St. Laurence and published by AHURI (the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute), assesses the scale and distribution of key tax expenditures associated with the treatment of housing in the Australian tax system.

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