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ISC director Richard Eccleston launches major housing reform report in Sydney
Institute for the Study of Social Change director Professor Richard Eccleston has launched a new report for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) on how to create a fairer housing system in Australia. Read the Australian Financial Review’s coverage of the report findings. Read the Inside Story’s coverage. Read the Examiner newspaper’s coverage of the report. […]

University of Tasmania social science researchers to tackle big global challenges
Social Science researchers at the University of Tasmania have been awarded coveted Australian Research Council funding to tackle emerging global challenges including tax avoidance by multi-nationals and how best to respond to religious diversity. Professor of Sociology Douglas Ezzy will lead a project that aims to make Australia safer through identifying strategies to maintain social […]

Census analysis highlights Tasmania’s workforce challenges
Men are ‘disappearing’ from the workforce, and fewer Tasmanians are employed in or seeking full-time jobs, the Institute for the Study of Social Change has found. In the first of a new series of Institute Insight reports focusing on social and economic change, the institute’s research fellow, demographer Lisa Denny has analysed data from the […]

Eminent historian & author Henry Reynolds outlines a case for changing the date of Australia Day
Australia Day should be celebrated on May 9, eminent historian and author Professor Henry Reynolds told a packed audience in Hobart last night. Professor Reynolds presented a public talk for the Institute for the Study of Social Change titled Political Correctness or Common Sense? The Australia Day Controversy. Watch online via livestream. “Those events in […]
