Jenny Malone

Women, work, care and COVID

Fiona Macdonald, Jenny Malone, Sara Charlesworth

Reading in Aphasia Measure

Janet Webster, Julie Morris, Jenny Malone, David Howard

Reading comprehension difficulties in people with aphasia: investigating personal perception of reading ability, practice, and difficulties

Janet Webster, Julie Morris, Jenny Malone, David Howard

Background: Whilst reading difficulties are a common feature of aphasia, there has been limited consideration of the impact of these difficulties on how people with aphasia experience reading in their everyday lives. Previous studies, using semi-structured interviews, have highlighted the need to …

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Disability workers are facing longer days with less pay

Fiona Macdonald, Eleanor Bentham, Jenny Malone

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Wage theft, underpayment and unpaid work in marketised social care

Fiona Macdonald, Eleanor Bentham, Jenny Malone

Abstract Marketised models of social care provision in Australia are placing pressures on service providers and driving changes in work organisation and employer practices, with potential to degrade social care jobs. While international experience of marketised social care has demonstrated the vulnerability …

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Re-imagining decent work for home care workers in Australia

Sara Charlesworth, Jenny Malone

The progress in Australia towards the full industrial recognition of home care work as ‘work’ has stalled. This paper draws on International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers 2011 to argue for a re-imaging of decent minimum …

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Part-time of what? Job quality and part-time employment in the legal profession in Australia

Iain Campbell, Sara Charlesworth, Jenny Malone

This article examines the quality of part-time employment for solicitors in private practice in Australia. Although full-time jobs based on long hours are dominant in the legal profession, part-time jobs, primarily taken by women, have attracted attention in recent years. The article …

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After the Orphanage: Life Beyond the Children's Home

Suellen Murray, John J. Murphy, Elizabeth Branigan, Jenny Malone

While there is much literature on the experience of growing up in an orphanage, very few books examine life after institutional care. After the Orphanage is the first book to address how care-leavers adjust to life in the outside world. Using interviews …

Critical Transitions: Housing Risks for Offenders and Their Families

Jenny Malone, Megan Peacock

The observation that critical transition points in the criminal justice system represent high risk phases for prisoners and their families is discussed. Some of the different programs currently being undertaken by VACRO (Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders) to …

Building a Life Story: Providing Records and Support to Former Residents of Children's Homes

Suellen Murray, Jenny Malone, Jenny Glare

Approximately 500,000 children were institutionalised in Australian orphanages and other forms of children's Homes over the course of the 20th century. However, growing up in care is not just a part of childhood; it can have ongoing impact across a person's life. …

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The elephant in the room: Working-time patterns of solicitors in private practice in Melbourne

Iain Campbell, Jenny Malone, Sara Charlesworth

This paper explores working-time arrangements for solicitors in private practice, drawing on official data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), varied documents, surveys, postings on legal blogs (`blawgs¿) and other secondary material, as well as a small program of interviews with …

Beyond the home gates: Life after growing up in Catholic institutions

Jenny Malone, Suellen Murray

Over the twentieth century, over half a million children were institutionalised across Australia, 100,000 of them in Victoria. This report, Beyond the Home Gates: Life After Growing Up in Catholic Institutions, was developed in the wake of the third of three Australian …