Staff papers and presentations

Recent presentations by AIFS staff are listed below with links to abstracts, the complete paper, or slides from powerpoint presentations.

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2006

Baxter, J. (2006, December). Children's time use in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children: Data quality and analytical issues in the 4-year cohort (PDF 5.2 MB). Presentation to ACSPRI Conference, Sydney.
Baxter, J. (2006, December). A day in the life of a 4-year old: The effect of parental employment (PDF 5.3 MB). Presentation to Australian Population Association Conference, Adelaide.
Baxter, J. (2006, December). Maternal employment in the first twelve months after the birth: The effect of pre-birth job characteristics (PDF 718 KB). Presentation to Australian Population Association Conference, Adelaide.
Bromfield, L. & Holzer, P. (2006, December). Child abuse prevention: What works? (PPT 259 KB). Presentation to Australian Centre for Child Protection Seminar Series (University of South Australia), Adelaide.
Bromfield, L. (2006, September). Preventing child abuse and neglect: Everyone's responsibility (PPT 194 KB). Paper presented to the Wendouree Rotary Club, Ballarat, Vic.
Bromfield, L. & Holzer, P. (2006, September). Child protection in Australia (PPT 313 KB). Presentation to the Australian Council of Children and Youth Organisation, Accreditation Network Meeting, Melbourne.
Bromfield, L. (2006, August). Child protection and out-of-home care: An update from the National Child Protection Clearinghouse (PPT 383 KB). Presentation to the Community Skills Training Centre, Department for Community Development, Perth.
Bromfield, L. & Higgins, D. (2006, June). A national approach to child protection: How close are we? (PPT 232 KB). Presentation to the National Child Protection Forum, hosted by the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Melbourne.
Bromfield, L. & Higgins, D. (2006, May). Ten years of out-of-home care research: Evaluating the Australian evidence-base (PPT 203 KB). Paper presented at the Out of Home Care Research Forum, Brisbane.
Bromfield, L. & Ryan, R. (2006, May). National comparison of entry-level training for statutory child protection workers (PPT 253 KB). Paper presented at the First National Conference for the Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners, Sydney.
Bromfield, B., Richardson, N. & Higgins, D. (2006, February). Kinship care: A culturally appropriate practice framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (PDF 724 KB).Presentation to the 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Wellington, NZ.
Gray, M., Qu, L. & Weston, R. (2006). Fertility and family policy in Australia (PDF 929 KB). A previous version of this paper was presented to the policy forum 'Facing the Future: Policy Challenges in the Ageing Era', Seoul, Korea, 13-14 September 2006.
Hayes, A. (2006, March). Early intervention and prevention across life: An Australian perspective (PDF 2.2 MB). Presentation to the Early Childhood Forum, Melbourne.
Higgins, D., Richardson, N. & Bromfield, L. (2006, February). Australian Indigenous communities and out-of-home care: Models of best practice (PDF 590 KB). Presentation to the 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Wellington, NZ.
Higgins, D., Richardson, N. & Bromfield, L. (2006, February). Facilitating child abuse prevention research and models of best practice: The role of a national clearinghouse for child protection research (PDF 1.1 MB). Poster presentation to the 10th Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Wellington, NZ.
Higgins, D. (2006, January). What's all the fuss about child abuse? Schools and child protection (PDF 594 KB). Keynote address at the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia Child Protection Conference, Freemantle, WA.
Higgins, D. (2006, January). Child protection: A national overview (PDF 392 KB). Invited address, followed by a roundtable forum on current issues and possibilities for a national framework, convened by the Centre for Vulnerable Children (University of Western Australia) and WA Families and the Ministerial Advisory Council for Child Protection, Perth.
Richardson, N., Smart, D., Vassallo, S. & Sanson. A. (2006, July). The role of environmental characteristics in changing the pathways to adolescent antisocial behaviour of high- and low-risk children (PPT 3.9 MB). Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Melbourne.
Smart, D., Letcher, P., Toumbourou, J., Williams, I. & Sanson, A. (2006, July). The value of longitudinal studies for identifying and explaining developmental trajectories (PPT 1.5 MB). Presentation to the 19th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Melbourne, Vic, 2-6 July 2006.