Reconciling Policy Tensions on the Frontlines of Indigenous Housing Provision in Australia: Reflexivity, Resistance and Hybridity

Nethercote, Megan

doi:10.1080/02673037.2014.925098

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“…Consistent with this suggestion, the comments offered by the practitioner participants of this study illustrate how drug workers use varied ways to construct their everyday practice by reflecting and reinscribing the more traditional aims of the CJS of reducing re-offending as 'improvements in social functioning'. Therefore, by interrogating the 'everyday work' this paper demonstrates that in carrying out their duties, drug treatment practitioners are neither institutional 'dupes' nor wholly self-interested individuals but instead, as Nethercote (2014Nethercote ( :1057 found in her study of local housing professionals, act in ways that 'are shaped by external realities, but also by their own subjective concerns and meanings'.…”

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confidence: 99%

The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda

Weston

2016

Critical Social Policy

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Crime reduction is a key objective in drug treatment policy and practice, and the criminal justice system is a key player in the delivery of treatment, particularly its potential to provide a pathway into drug treatment. Despite cultural, ideological and philosophical differences, criminal justice and health sector workers are expected to work together alongside other agencies to address dependent drug use and associated harms. Through an analysis of indepth interviews with drug treatment practitioners this paper critically examines a number of assumptions underpinning this policy imperative. The author illustrates how the goals and everyday activities of drug workers have become aligned to the CJS helping to create closer working relationships between these two agencies. However, also argued is how such changes may have helped to constrain drug workers' relationships with other health and social care agencies making it difficult to address the complex needs presented by dependent drug users.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda

Weston

2016

Critical Social Policy

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“…There are an estimated 100,000 people who are deemed homeless (ABS 2012). The plight of indigenous people is especially bleak: as many as 50 per cent of households live in overcrowded conditions (Jordan & Bulloch 2010;Nethercote 2014). Currently, the total amount of social housing stock is now less than it was in 1986 (Yates 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

A reverse form of welfarism: some reflections on Australian housing policy

Jacobs¹

2015

Aust J Social Issues

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In this paper I argue that we have been amiss in diagnosing the role played by government, which has exacerbated the housing problems afflicting low‐income households in Australia. However, I argue further we have placed too much faith in the capacity of managerial interventions to ameliorate what are far more deep‐rooted and systemic challenges. It is suggested that researchers need to adopt a more critical account of the conduct of contemporary government policy making, one that casts aside a view of the State as a benevolent agency whose primary objective is to ameliorate the conditions of the disadvantaged. Instead, the State should be understood as an agency that sustains the conditions necessary for the finance industry, developers and real estate agents, along with well‐off householders and landlords, to reap profits. The political economy of Australian housing, in its current incarnation, performs a form of reverse welfarism that exacerbates social inequality.

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“…Tenancy management inconsistencies identified in earlier work (Nethercote, 2014) were shown to convey mixed messages to tenants about the new conditions of their tenancy, heightening tenant confusion (Nethercote, 2015). In the context of tenancy support provision, most local professionals suggested these inconsistencies and mixed messages could undermine professionals' attempts to educate tenants about changes to their housing welfare conditions.…”

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“…Western Australia and Northern Territory were selected based on their contrasting jurisdictional approach to the administration of welfare reforms (detailed in Nethercote, 2014) and the local presence of research partners (details in the acknowledgements). Case sites were then chosen from those identified by government as 'priority' communities (from a total of twenty-nine communities) on the assumption that policy implementation would be most advanced during fieldwork.…”

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“…This is the third in a series of articles that report on these housing reforms, based on qualitative case study research in Indigenous town camps communities. Both preceding articles concerned the implementation of mainstream public housing management and illustrated respectively how housing professionals interpreted and implemented new welfare conditionalities (Nethercote, 2014), and how tenants understood and experienced these (Nethercote, 2015). The first highlighted the potential for inconsistent tenancy management resulting from discretionary management practices; the second identified a range of structural and socio-cultural barriers to tenancy compliance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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