Library Blog - March 2026
News and articles
This month's articles of interest:
- Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention: Critical Social Policy.
- Culturally safe practice in residential out-of-home care: A critical examination of its implementation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: The British Journal of Social Work.
- The Hierarchy of Sources: A Cheat Sheet: A guide to evaluating information sources in the AI age. Card Catalog
- 55,000 extra social housing homes are being built. But a new study shows that boom still falls short: The Conversation.
- Political polarization, wage inequality and preferences for redistribution: IFS Working Papers.
- A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly: The Conversation.
- From activism to the Act: The makings of Victoria’s anti-discrimination laws: Public Record Office Victoria.
- ‘It matters if you have a parent with an expensive house’: how Australia’s great wealth transfer threatens faith in the fair go: The Guardian.
Journals
This month there are new issues of:
- Critical Social Policy (Volume 46 Issue 1, February 2026)
- Social Sciences (Volume 15, Issue 2, 2026 February)
- Children and Youth Services Review (Volume 182, March 2026)
- Early Childhood Research Quarterly (Volume 75, 2nd Quarter 2026)
- Labour Economics (Volume 98, February 2026)
- Educational Research Review (Volume 50, February 2026)
- Evaluation and Program Planning (Volume 114, February 2026)
- Disability and Health Journal (Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2026)
- Data & Policy (Volume 8, 2026)
- Journal of Public Policy (Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2026)
- Ageing & society (Volume 46, 2026)
- Poverty & Public Policy (Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2026)
Podcasts & Streaming
- National Housing Conference 2025: AHURI.
- Joseph Stiglitz on super profits, capital gains and why corporate tax is good for democracy: Follow the money Podcast.
- Make or break for the NDIS: Full Story podcast
- How Australia can chart its own course in an uncertain world: Follow the money podcast.
- Larissa Behrendt - Justice, Ideas, Inclusion: Boyer Lecture Series.
- Can I give you some feedback?: This working life.
- Pauline Hanson and the Platform Economy: Spin cycle.
- Building social cohesion: Democracy Sausage.
PD & Events
- Developing Policy Acumen, ANZSOG, 5 March and 2 June 2026 (1 day), from $1750, online.
- Targeted Luck: Gambling Harm in Chinese-Australian Communities, 10 March, online, free.
- Multiculturalism in Focus: What does belonging mean for migrants in Australia? 12 March, online, free.
- Changing Public Policy, 11, 12 March Online, 14 April Melbourne.
- Challenging heteronormativity in family, domestic and sexual violence policy, 19 March, Melbourne, free.
- Leadership Oration 2026, 19 March, Melbourne.
- Five years of Fairer, Safer Renting: How is Victoria faring and what's to come? 23 March, online, free.
- Getting Started: Analysing HILDA with Stata 2026, 8 April, Melbourne.
- Introduction to the HILDA survey (online), 3,5 March, 4, 6 August 2026, online, free.
- Common Cause Fundamentals, April/May 2026, online.
- Scholarship Disabled: Crip research, crip scholars, 22 July, online, free.
Current Display
This month the book display in the library is on leadership. Please see the current display list for information about these items.For more leadership related resources in the library catalogue see our curated subject matter list, Organisational Leadership.