“…Although the newfound interestin researchthathad emerged in the 1950s continued into the 1960s, practiceresearchremainedof littleinterestto Australiansocial workers. In her analysisof articlespublishedin the Australian Journal ofSocial Work (as Forum was nowknown) between 1963and 1970, Brotherton (1972) notes that just one of the 103 articles published in this period was experimental, and even then, the tables were consigned to an appendix ratherthanpresentedaspartof themainreport.A further14articles involved reportsof survey researchandotherstudies,butof thisgroup,6 contained data, and Brotherton notes that several lacked the rigor required by most other refereedjournals.…”