Marketisation of immigrant skills assessment in Australia

The provision of social services in Australia has changed dramatically in recent decades. Governments have expanded social provision without expanding the public sector by directly subsidising private provision, by contracting private agencies, both non-profit and for-profit, to deliver services, and through a number of other subsidies and vouchers. Private actors receive public funds to deliver social services to citizens, raising a range of important questions about financial and democratic accountability: 'who benefits', 'who suffers' and 'who decides'. This book explores these developments through rich case studies of a diverse set of social policy domains. The case studies demonstrate a range of effects of marketisation, including the impact on the experience of consumer engagement with social service systems, on the distribution of social advantage and disadvantage, and on the democratic steering of social policy

Alien Registration- Boucher, Anna (Biddeford, York County)

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Alien Registration- Boucher, Anna (Biddeford, York County)

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Alien Registration- Boucher, Anna Marea A. (Lewiston, Androscoggin County)

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Migration: the economic debate

Over the last seventy years, immigration has added seven million people to Australia’s population and will, if current policy settings continue, add a further thirteen million by 2060. The current focus of the migration program on skilled migration, while maintaining opportunities for family and humanitarian immigration, is perceived to have served Australia well. However, key policies in the migration program, when added to the rise of extremist politicians in Australia and globally, have the potential to undermine its community acceptance with respect to the economic benefits for the nation. In particular, an overreliance on poorly regulated market driven components of the program and the very substantial pools of relatively unregulated temporary migrants create opportunities for exploitation and have significant consequences for incumbent workers. CEDA believes that Australia’s migration program has played an important role in the nation’s economic success. The almost unprecedented twenty-five years of economic expansion was facilitated by a responsive migration program that was able to access skills and labour needed to handle the largest terms of trade boom in a century. It also connects Australian businesses with global talent and new trade opportunities. This policy perspective examines what changes in public policy with respect to the migration program are necessary to sustain its contribution to Australia’s economic development and social cohesion and to maintain community support

Doing Things with Research through Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends?

This workshop provides a venue within CHI for research through design (RtD) practitioners to present their work and discuss how, with whom, and why it is used. Building on the success of prior RtD and design research workshops at CHI, this workshop will focus on how RtD artifacts are used, with the goal of connecting diverse works with broader methodologies in HCI and Design

Fast and slow shifts of the zonal-mean intertropical convergence zone in response to an idealized anthropogenic aerosol

Previous modeling work showed that aerosol can affect the position of the tropical rain belt, i.e., the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). Yet it remains unclear which aspects of the aerosol impact are robust across models, and which are not. Here we present simulations with seven comprehensive atmosphere models that study the fast and slow impacts of an idealized anthropogenic aerosol on the zonal-mean ITCZ position. The fast impact, which results from aerosol atmospheric heating and land cooling before sea-surface temperature (SST) has time to respond, causes a northward ITCZ shift. Yet the fast impact is compensated locally by decreased evaporation over the ocean, and a clear northward shift is only found for an unrealistically large aerosol forcing. The local compensation implies that while models differ in atmospheric aerosol heating, this does not contribute to model differences in the ITCZ shift. The slow impact includes the aerosol impact on the ocean surface energy balance and is mediated by SST changes. The slow impact is an order of magnitude more effective than the fast impact and causes a clear southward ITCZ shift for realistic aerosol forcing. Models agree well on the slow ITCZ shift when perturbed with the same SST pattern. However, an energetic analysis suggests that the slow ITCZ shifts would be substantially more model-dependent in interactive-SST setups due to model differences in clear-sky radiative transfer and clouds. We also discuss implications for the representation of aerosol in climate models and attributions of recent observed ITCZ shifts to aerosol

Laterally Extended Endopelvic Resection (Leer) and Reconstructive Techniques for Treatment of Locally Advanced Cervix Cancer: A Case Report

The aim of this report is to describe the surgical procedure done in a 24-year-old woman who presents a locally advanced squamous cervix carcinoma and is proposed to laterally extended endopelvic resection (LEER), intraoperative radiation therapy with electrons (IORT) and urinary and colon diversion with vaginal reconstruction. A year after surgery the patient is alive, without disease and with and acceptable quality of life

Les panthères roses de Montréal: Un collectif queer d'actions directes

Cette monographie a été réalisée sur le mode de la recherche-action. Cette approche méthodologique suppose que les membres du collectif recensé participent activement à la production de connaissances sur leur groupe, sur leur mode d’organisation. Ce faisant, on espère que la réflexion qui s’en dégage participe aussi de la dynamique d’émancipation, d’appropriation et de partage des savoirs et des savoir-faire. On suppose donc qu’un projet vraiment émancipateur implique les actrices et acteurs du début à la fin : de la conceptualisation, à la réalisation et, finalement, à la diffusion des résultats. Concrètement, en tant que membre du CRAC-K, Julie Grolleau a approché les membres des Panthères roses à l’automne 2006. Les entrevues individuelles ont pu commencer. Sur la base des éléments dégagés de ces entrevues, un entretien collectif de retour et d’approfondissement a été effectué. Ce matériau a été analysé en suivant la codification du CRAC-K sur les questions concernant l’autonomie collective et en tenant compte des textes diffusés sur le site des Panthères roses (communiqués d’action, images, textes). Une première version de la monographie a été soumise aux membres du groupe, afin de s’assurer qu’illes s’y reconnaissent et soient en accord avec son contenu. Une seconde version mise en page leur a enfin été envoyée et c’était la fin d’un long et stimulant processus