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References and further reading

ABS PUBLICATIONS

Births, Australia, 1999, (Cat. no. 3301.0).

Child Care, Australia, 1999, (Cat. no. 4402.0).

Children Australia: A Social Report, 1999, (Cat. no. 4119.0).

Directory of Child and Family Statistics, 2000, (Cat no. 4158.0).

Household and Family Projections, Australia, 1996-2021, (Cat. no. 3236.0).

How Australians Use Their Time, 1997, (Cat. no. 4153.0).

Marriages and Divorces, Australia, 1999, (Cat. no. 3310.0).

Older People, Australia: A Social Report, 1999, (Cat. no. 4109.0).

Standards for Statistics on the Family, 1995, (Cat. no. 4408.0).

Voluntary Work, Australia, 2000, (Cat. no. 4441.0).

Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Families. (Cat. no. 6224.0), Annual.

Census of Population and Housing: Community Profiles, Australia, (Cat. no. 2020.0).

Census of Population and Housing: Australia in Profile - A Regional Analysis (Cat. no. 2032.0).

Information Paper: Census of Population and Housing - Socio-economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia. (Cat. no. 2039.0).

Integrated Regional Data Base (IRDB), Australia (Cat. no. 1353.0).

Social Atlases. (Cat. no. 2030.1 - 2030.8).

Directory of Census Statistics (Cat. no. 2910.0)


NON-ABS PUBLICATIONS

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute 1999, Community Opportunity and Vulnerability in Australian Cities and Towns: Characteristics Patterns and Implications, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Website <http://www.aihw.gov.au>.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 1997, Australia's Welfare 1997, Services and Assistance, Canberra.

Black, A., and Hughes, P., 2001, The identification and analysis of indicators of community strength and outcomes', paper prepared for the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, (DFACS Occasional Paper No. 3). Canberra.

Braithwaite, J., 1989, Crime, Shame and Reintegration, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.

Cass, B., and Brennan, D., 2001, Deconstructing the concept of community and its contested uses in the welfare reform debate. Paper prepared for presentation at the National Social Policy Conference, University of New South Wales, 6 July 2001.

Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, 2000, Stronger Families and Communities Strategy, Canberra.

Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, 1998, Social Indicators for Regional Australia, Canberra.

Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services Website <http://www.facs.gov.au>.

Department of Transport and Regional Sciences, 1999, Servicing Regional Australia, A GIS study of accessibility to services in non-metropolitan Australia.

Friedman, M., 'Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Modern Community' in Schlomo Avenari and Avner de-Shalit, 1992, Communitarianism and Individualism, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Haberkorn, G., Hugo, G., Fisher, M., and Aylwar, R., 1999, 'Country Matters: A Social Atlas of Rural and Regional Australia, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.

Hopkins, A., 1993, 'The importance of Community', in Individual and Social Wellbeing, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, 15-16 July, 1993.

Nisbet, R., 1966, The Sociological Tradition, Heinemann, London.

Reference Group on Welfare Reform, 2000, Participation Support for a More Equitable Society: Final Report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform, Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra.

Standing Committee of Community Services and Income Security Administrators, 1998, National Community Services Data Dictionary, Version 1.0, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra.

Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision, 2001, Report on Government Services 2001, Ausinfo, Canberra.

Tonnies, F., 1955, Community and Association, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.

United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, 1989, Convention on the Rights of the Child, General Assembly resolution 44/25, New York.

Weber, M., 1962, Basic Concepts in Sociology, Peter Owen, London.

Winter, I. (ed.), 2000, Social Capital and Public Policy in Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne.

Zubrick, S., Williams, A., and Silburn, S., 2000, Indicators of Social and Family Functioning, paper prepared for the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, Canberra.