Social Policy in Australia 3rd edition guides students in understanding the meaning and operation of social policy in Australia. Taking a critical approach, and placing their analysis of social policy in an international context, the authors provide a framework for understanding the roles and relationships of the key players and institutions that influence the decision-making process. This authoritative, up to date text is written in light of the latest change in government and tackles the issues most relevant in recent times, including climate change and social justice. It includes a new chapter on 'Population: An Ever-present Policy Issue' and completely re-written chapters on 'Education Policy: Issues, Debates and Opportunities in Australian Schooling', and 'Housing Policy: Change and Prospects'.

Social Policy in Australia: Understanding for Action

Politics & Social Sciences

SMYTH, Paul

McClelland, Alison

Sociology

Oxford University Press

This book takes relevant case studies and examples to provide guidance for social policy practice that complement the theoretical sections of the book. Taking a critical approach, and an international context, the authors provide a framework for understanding the roles and relationships of the key players and institutions that influence the decision-making process.

Social Sciences

Deliveries

Nothing could make Paul Jackson feel more alive than launching skyward with silver wings slicing through an intolerably beautiful landscape. Operating an air charter company with only one airplane is challenging at the best of times, but for Paul, the daily rigours of bush flying are overshadowed by his passion for flight. Unhindered by slim profit margins, Paul and longtime friend Dave McMurray rarely pass up the opportunity to journey aloft, risking all to appease a fledgling clientele. On a spur-of-the-moment request, Paul hastily agrees to fly an important load of cargo to a rustic hideaway nestled in the shoreline of a picturesque mountain lake. As lodge owner Jack Ward awaits his delivery, poor weather not only threatens his plans to promote his resort, but Jack quickly discovers that certain things in his methodical life are simply beyond his control. Paul's compulsive need to keep his plane airborne and provide for his family supersedes his moral compass. As the wheels lift from the patchy asphalt runway, Paul starts to consider the ramifications of his decisions, including the possible end to a career he loves and the inevitable reality of hurting those he cares about the most. When multiple challenges arise in a short window of time, Paul and Dave must work together to not only preserve their livelihood, but also, quite possibly, their lives. In the process, Paul is forced to realign priorities, wrestle with life's unpredictability, and come to terms with the idea that a flight today is no guarantee of wings in the air tomorrow.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Tellwell Talent

Discover the inspiration to get gardening!\nCreate and maintain a stunning and fragrant garden with Ireland’s favorite garden designer Diarmuid Gavin and plantsman extraordinaire Paul Smyth as your guides.\nFind out when to prune your hydrangea, which soil suits potatoes, how to keep your lawn green and moss free, and learn how to plan ahead with this beautiful and practical gardening book.\nPacked with beautiful photos, simple tips and tricks and inspirational advice on plants, this book will show you month by month how to achieve striking color schemes, gorgeous scents and fabulous foliage, as well as how to plan and create a garden design to suit your lifestyle.\nInspired by Diarmuid and Paul’s online conversations and TV show, Gardening Together follows the pair on a garden year from January to December, with a monthly look at what you need to do to enjoy and appreciate your outside space like never before.

Gardening Together

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gavin, Diarmuid

Gardening & Landscape Design

Gill Books

Poetry. The poems of Paul Smyth have appeared in magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry (which awarded him the Dillon Memorial Prize). His first collection, Conversions, published in 1974 by the University of Georgia Press, was followed by two books of poems illustrated by artist Barry Moser and a collection of epigrams. Paul Smyth died in late 2006, just after completing last corrections on the manuscript for A PLAUSIBLE LIGHT."A PLAUSIBLE LIGHT is the last book of a strong and distinguished talent. Paul Smyth had an easy mastery of verse forms, a vivid narrative gift, a good acquaintance with fact and natural process, and a rare capacity for confronting what is painful in life. He had, for instance, a Frostian power to acknowledge fear—an emotion which he finds even in the sound of a hummingbird's wings. Whatever is strikingly said is to some extent disarmed, and for all its darkness Smyth's poetry has high morale. Of the many poems one might single out, it is "Erik Satie: 'Trois Gymnopedies'" which seems to me the gem of this selection; as an evocation both of music and of sad experience, it is a triumph of articulateness."—Richard Wilbur

A Plausible Light: New and Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

El Leon Literary Arts

In this book, you will discover a blueprint that will show you how to launch a software development business and grow it to seven figures and more. You will learn how to bootstrap your business and how to grow it from one customer to multiple customers generating a million dollars, and more, in annual revenues. You will also learn how to run your business profitably so that you build a valuable asset that creates real wealth for you and your loved ones. There's no rocket science involved. The book is full of practical advice and battle-proven strategies and tactics from over 20 years at the coalface of a software development business. You don't need an MBA to build a successful business. As long as you have solid development experience, a willingness to take action and a commitment to learning some new business skills then you could become the next millionaire software developer.

The Millionaire Software Developer: How To Use Your Software Development Skills To Build A 7-Figure Business

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

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