Library Blog - December 2025

News

This month's news on social change and social inclusion.

• The Albanese government’s Integrity Report Card: The Centre for Public Integrity, October 2025
• The Evolving doughnut: Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics Action Lab. The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a conceptual framework that proposes a goal for a thriving 21st century.
• Generation Z: life after COVID: NCVER. Generation Z: life after COVID brings together information from LSAY participants who commenced the program in 2015, using findings from their 2024 interviews to explore their engagement with study and work, alongside measures of their health and wellbeing. It also compares results from 24-year-olds in 2012, 2018 and 2024 to show how the lives of young Australians have changed over the past decade.
• By how much Is ‘women's work’ undervalued in the economy? : Leonora Risse, Economic Record, October 2025
• As Australia welcomes its millionth refugee, its hardline border policies endure. We can lead by example again : The Conversation, 11 November 2025
• Investigating the relationships between first-in-family status, equity groups, and university access: Tomasz Zając, The University of Queensland (UQ)

• American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 46 Iss. 4, December 2025
• Australian Journal of Public Administration, November 2025
• Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities: Vol. 38, Iss. 6, November 2025
• Journal of Poverty, Vol. 29, Iss. 7, 2025
• Poverty & Public Policy: Vol. 17, Iss. 4, December 2025
• Public Policy & Aging Report, Vol. 35, Iss. 3, 2025
• Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Iss. 10, October 2025

Podcasts & Streaming

• Fixing Australia's housing crisis: is increasing supply really a silver bullet?: ABC Big Ideas, Natasha Mitchell
• From vision to viability: funding requirements for effective early chilhood hubs: Social Ventures Australia, October 2025
• How can we do better? Supporting children’s mental health in Australia: Emerging Minds, October 2025
• Integrity at the margins: power and accountabiity in indigenous affairs: Prof. Megan Davis AC, Centre for Public Integrity
• The radicalisation of boys: ABC Big Ideas, Jess Hill, George Megalogenis, Thomas Mayo, Natasha Mitchell at Byron Writers Festival

PD & Events

• Australian Human Rights Awards 2025, 12 December 2025, Online
• International Conference on Social Policy and Inequality (ICSPIE - 26), Melbourne, 12-13 February 2026, Hybrid Event
• Starting Out: Advocacy, Leadership, & Policy, LELAN, 10 February, Location TBA
• Developing Policy Acumen, ANZSOG, 5 March and 2 June 2026 (1 day), from $1750, Online
• Australian Social Policy Conference 2026, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 30 September-2 October 2026.