'Building Jobs’: Renewal SA’s Works Program at Playford Alive

YesThis report provides a detailed overview of Renewal SA’s Works Program implemented as part of Playford Alive, a large scale urban renewal project representing a partnership between Renewal SA, the City of Playford, the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI), Housing SA and the local community. It documents evidence generated by semi‐structured interviews with project staff and participants of the program. Renewal SA’s Works Program at Playford Alive requires private contractors and service providers to deliver either work experience and longer term placements or training to a number of local unemployed people as a condition of being awarded the contract

High Performing Workplaces: Workforce Futures Employer Survey - Playford & Salisbury Wave 3

YesThe Workplace Futures Survey (WFS) – Playford and Salisbury is a longitudinal workplace survey implemented in Playford and Salisbury. The WFS is designed to capture in-depth information on a range of workplace issues and trends that will provide a comprehensive picture of the issues and challenges faced by employers in the region. This report focuses on Wave 3 of the WFS which was completed by 387 employers during October to November 2014. Results are compared with Wave 1, which was administered a year earlier (November 2013) to 451 employers and Wave 2 completed in May 2014 by 455 employers. The WFS includes a number of core questions on business sentiment, organisational performance along with vacancy and skill demand. Wave 2 also contained focus questions on the potential impact of the automotive closure, whereas Wave 3 explores establishment engagement with High Performance Workplace Practices (HPWP).Department of State Development, South Australi

Book Reviews

Book Reviews: the Water of Life, a Jungian Journey Through Hawaiian Myth by Rita Knipe; Before the Horror: the Population of Hawai'i on the Eve of Western Contact by David E. Stannard; Observations and Interpretation of Hawaiian Volcanism and Seismicity 1779-1955. An Annotated Bibliography and Subject Index by Thomas L. Wright and Taeko Jane Takahashi; An Account of Two Voyages to the South Seas, to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829 in the Corvette Astrolabe; and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, Southeast Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, and the Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the Corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. by Jules S. C. Dumont d'Urville, Translated and edited by Helen Rosenman; Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii by Patricia Grimshaw; Journal of Stephen Reynolds Edited by Pauline King; Moramona: the Mormons in Hawaii by R. Lanier Britsch; the Peopling of Hawai'i by Eleanor C. Nordyk

Measuring social inclusion and exclusion in Northern Adelaide: a report for the Department of Health

John Spoehr, Lou Wilson, Kate Barnett, Tania Toth and Amanda Watson-Tranhttp://www.sapo.org.au/pub/pub9483.htm

Population, resources, and environment: Implications of human behavioral ecology for conservation

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43481/1/11111_2005_Article_BF02207996.pd