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Australian Institute Of Family Studies
The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) is an Australian Government statutory agency in the Department of Social Services. It is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its role is to conduct research and communicate findings that affect family wellbeing to policy makers, service providers and the broader community. The Director of AIFS is Anne Hollonds, and the Chairman of the Advisory Council is Brian Howe. History The Australian Institute of Family Studies was established in February 1980. Born largely out of concerns about the possible effects of no-fault divorce, the inclusion of an Institute of Family Studies (as it was then known) had been an eleventh hour amendment to the Bill which helped to get the Family Law Act 1975 over the final hurdle of a Parliamentary debate which had lasted more than 18 months. The foundation Director of AIFS was Don Edgar. Other former Directors include Harry McGurk, David Stanton and Alan Hayes. AIFS’ first major study was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Social Services (Australia)
The Department of Social Services (DSS) is a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for national policies and programs that help deliver a strong and fair society for all Australians. The department develops and implements social policy. The head of the department is the Secretary of the Department of Social Services, currently Ray Griggs,. who reports to the Minister for Families and Social Services. Previously, the Minister for Social Services was Paul Fletcher from 2018 to 2019. In the Turnbull Government, the ministers were assisted by the Assistant Minister for Disability Services, the Hon Jane Prentice and the Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs, the Hon Craig Laundy . The head office of the department is located in the Australian Capital Territory suburb of Greenway. History The department was formed by way of an Administrative Arrangements Order issued on 18 September 2013 and replaced the majority of the functions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the prime minister, the ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (lower house) and Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal territories, the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Australian monarch, currently King Charles III, is represented by the governor-general. The Australian Government in its executive ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Hollonds
Anne Hollonds (born 1957) is the currenAustralian National Children's Commissioner She was appointed to this position in November 2020. Prior to this role she was the Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies. For more than 23 years Anne has been a Chief Executive Officer of government and non-government organisations focussed on policy, service delivery and research in health, education and social services, including the Benevolent Society and Relationships Australia NSW. Hollonds was born in Tampere, Finland and travelled to Australia with her family in 1958. Growing up in the North Shore (Sydney), North Shore area of Sydney, Hollonds spoke Finnish language, Finnish at home and English language, English at school. Hollonds has two daughters. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollonds, Anne 1957 births Living people Children's Ombudsmen Ombudsmen in New Zealand Australian chief executives People from Tampere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Howe (politician)
Brian Leslie Howe AO (born 28 January 1936) is a retired Australian politician and Uniting Church minister. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and deputy leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1995, under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. He was a government minister continuously from 1983 to 1996, and a member of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1996, representing the Division of Batman in Victoria. Early life Howe was born in Melbourne. He grew up in the suburb of Malvern and attended Melbourne High School, going on to complete a Bachelor of Arts and a diploma in criminology at the University of Melbourne. He later moved to the United States to study at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Howe was the minister at a Methodist church in Fitzroy from 1961 to 1969, while lecturing part-time in sociology. He remains an ordained Uniting Church minister. In the early 1970s, Howe was the founding director of the Centre for Urban Research and Action (CURA). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No-fault Divorce
In a no-fault divorce the dissolution of a marriage does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow a family court to grant a divorce in response to a petition by either party of the marriage without requiring the petitioner to provide evidence that the defendant has committed a breach of the marital contract. History In early modern Europe, Prussia took a pioneering role with Frederick the Great's 1757 edict allowing marriages to be resolved on the ground of serious and continuous hostility between spouses, without pointing to any one guilty party. This early example of no-fault divorce was expanded on and formalized with the 1794 ''General State Laws for the Prussian States'', which allowed childless couples to file for divorce without giving a ground. The first modern no-fault divorce law was enacted in Russia in December 1917 following the October Revolution of the same year. Regarding marriage as a bourgeois institution, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Edgar
Dr. Donald E. Edgar (born 1936) was the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Under his leadership the Institute had a profound influence on the Government of Australia regarding family policy, family and work, welfare policy and family law. He continues to contribute to Australian thinking in these areas through his own consulting practise and as an occasional columnist and commentator in the Australian media, particularly The Age and The Australian. Career Edgar had been Professor in Sociology and Education at the University of Chicago, Reader (Assistant Professor) in Sociology at La Trobe University and Adjunct Professor with RMIT University's Centre for Workplace Culture Change. He has been a member of the Victorian Children's Council since 1996, and is an Ambassador for NARI, the National Ageing Research Institute. His topics of interest include: *Australian national identity in a globalised world *Business partnerships and community networks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry McGurk
Harry McGurk (23 February 1936 – 17 April 1998) was a British cognitive psychologist. He is known for his discovery of the McGurk effect, described in a 1976 paper with his research assistant John MacDonald, while he was a senior developmental psychologist at the University of Surrey. Biography McGurk was born in Hillington, Glasgow on 23 February 1936. After training at the University of Glasgow, he became a probation officer in Edinburgh. He married Betty Hannah. She was invited to go out to the Church of Scotland mission in Nigeria to use her accountancy skills and for two years he became involved with the management of the school and hospital. On their return, he studied psychology at University of Strathclyde, gaining a BA, an MSc, and a PhD for his seminal work on infant perception. Following a period as a Research Fellow at Princeton University, he joined the University of Surrey, as a lecturer in child development and later was appointed to a personal chair in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Prior
Margot Ruth Prior (24 March 1937 – 24 August 2020) was an Australian psychologist, educator, and musician. She was professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne where her research focussed on autism and literacy development. She was also director of psychology at the Royal Children's Hospital and was adjunct professor at La Trobe University. Biography Prior was born on 24 March 1937, in Melbourne, Victoria. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BMus and a BA. She completed an MSc and PhD at Monash University and took up an academic position at La Trobe University in 1976. She was the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Committee of Australia’s first autism research centre at La Trobe, the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, established in 2008, and held this position until her 80th year. The Victorian Autism Specific Early Learning and Care centre at La Trobe was named after her in recognition of her long contribution to autism intervention science a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Institute Of Criminology
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and criminal justice. The Institute seeks to promote justice and reduce crime by undertaking and communicating evidence-based research to inform policy and practice. The functions of the AIC include conducting criminological research; communicating the results of research; conducting or arranging conferences and seminars; and publishing material arising out of the AIC's work. Structure An Australian Government agency, the AIC was established in 1973 and operates under the Criminology Research Act 1971. It is part of the Home Affairs Portfolio and accountable to the Minister for Home Affairs. The AIC works closely with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC). The Chief Executive Officer of the ACIC is also the Director of the AIC, and although an independent entity, AIC staff were transferred to the ACIC under a Machinery of Government process in 2015. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
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Muriel Bamblett
Muriel Pauline Bamblett is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung advocate for Aboriginal child welfare in Victoria and Australia. Biography Bamblett has been the chief executive of Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA), since 1999. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University. From 1998 to 2008 she was the chair of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC). Bamblett is a member of the Aboriginal Treaty Working Group; Aboriginal Family Violence Steering Committee; Victorian Children's Council; Aboriginal Justice Forum; and the Aboriginal Community Elders Service. From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the board of the Northern Territory Inquiry into Child Protection. She was elected to the Victorian First Peoples' Assembly in November 2019. Recognition In 2019, Bamblett was awarded the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the Indigenous community of Victoria as an advocate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
