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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 26 November 2005

Table of Contents

Policy Papers

Engaging Communities to Reduce Health Inequalities: Why Partnership?

Anna Matheson, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Kevin Dew

Policy Development Papers

Understanding Dangerous Consumptions: Moving Forward with a National Strategy for Research on Tobacco, Alcohol, other Drugs and Gambling

Peter Adams, Ian Hodges

Accounting for Something: Voluntary Organisations, Accountability and the Implications for Government Funders

Jo Cribb

Bridging the Gap Between Policy, Research and Practice: Experiences from a Community Economic Development Action Research Project in New Zealand

Meenakshi Sankar

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

Tracy Anderson

Research Papers

Lavender Parents

Mark Henrickson

The Needs of Pacific Women when they are Victims of Family Violence

’Ana Hau’alofa’ia Koloto
Sashi Sharma

The Social Sanctioning of Partner Abuse: Perpetuating the Message that Partner Abuse is Acceptable in New Zealand

Janice R. Giles
Helen M. Curreen
Carole E. Adamson

Off to a Better Start: What we Know About Early Intervention Services

Joan Sykora

The Kindness of Strangers: Family-Based Early Intervention and Improved Outcomes for Children

Tina E Robilliard

Family Membership in Post-Reunion Adoption Narratives

Julee Browning
Grant Duncan

Barriers to Employment Identified by Blind and Vision-Impaired Persons in New Zealand

Steven J. La Grow
Paula Daye

Associations Between Universities and the Tobacco Industry: What Institutional Policies Limit these Associations?

George Thomson
Louise Signal

Reviews

Past Judgement: Social Policy in New Zealand History

Edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant
Otago University Press
Jane Kelsey

New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations

Edited by J.H. Liu, T. McCreanor, T. Mcintosh and T. Teaiwa
Victoria University Press, 2005
Paul Spoonley

2005 PANZ Conference;People and Place: Communites, Regions, Diversity and Change

Chungui Qiao

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