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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Meaning of Home for Children and Young People After Parental SeparationCampo, M ; Fehlberg, B ; Smyth, B ; Natalier, K ( 2018)A new study exploring the meaning of home for children and young people after separation aims to inform living arrangements that work for them.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableScreening of Chinese Investments IntensifiesMcCalman, P ; Puzzello, L ; Voon, T ; Walter, A ( 2022)
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ItemProject 113 Sexual Offences: Background PaperTarrant, S ; Douglas, H ; Tubex, H (Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, 2022-12-20)This paper discusses background social issues relevant for considering sexual offence laws. We examine the issues from three perspectives: • The harmfulness of sexual violence; • Common misconceptions about sexual violence; and • Complainants’ experiences of the criminal justice system
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTwenty Years after the High Court's Wik Decision, How Does the 'Judicial Activism' Charge Stand Up?Josev, T (The Conversation Media Group, 2016)2016 marks 20 years since the High Court handed down the Wik Peoples v Queensland decision on the extent to which pastoral leases over land in Queensland extinguished native title. This year also marks the 20-year anniversary of the stoking of the judicial activism debate in Australia.
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ItemDo Children's Rights Matter?Tobin, J (Right Now, 2012-07-20)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableCan Ethical Labelling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, and Just?Parker, C ( 2019)Consumers are often encouraged to “vote with their fork” and “say no” to unhealthy, unsustainable and unfair food. Food packaging is typically littered with claims about the nutrition, ethics and social goods associated with the product inside. Claims like “organic”, “GMO free”, “fair trade”, and “anti-biotic free” are common. But can consumer preference base labelling make a difference to the health, sustainability and ethics challenges facing the food system?
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ItemNo Preview AvailableNational plan to allow battery cages until 2036 favours cheap eggs over animal welfareParker, C ; Bromberg, L ( 2021-07-05)Eggs laid by battery hens would be phased out within 15 years under a plan to improve poultry welfare in Australia. The proposal signals some relief for the 10 million or so egg-laying hens still kept in battery cages in Australia. But it doesn’t go far enough.
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ItemNo Preview Available3 billion animals were in the bushfires’ path. Here’s what the royal commission said (and should’ve said) about themBest, A ; Parker, C ; Godden, L ( 2020-11-09)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableGaining Clarity of the Ethicial Issues of a Possible COVID-19 VaccineMunsie, M ; Gyngell, C ; Taylor-Sands, M ( 2020)Given the implications for potential take-up of a COVID-19 vaccine, it's important to unpack religious as well as the general ethical concerns from using human cell lines.