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Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 30 March 2007

Table of Contents

Foreword

Social Policy Papers

Responding to the Deaths of Children Known to Child Protection Agencies

      Marie Connolly, Mike Doolan

Human Rights and Social Policy in New Zealand

      Claudia Geiringer, Matthew Palmer

Policy Development Papers

Institutional Challenges in Addressing Healthy Low-Cost Housing for All: Learning from Past Policy

      Sarah Bierre, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Louise Signal, Chris Cunningham

Responding to the Challenges: Recent Developments in Censorship Policy in New Zealand

      David Wilson

Community Participation and Quality of Life for ex-Templeton Centre Residents: Policy, Theory and Practice: An Opportunity for NGO Collaboration.

      John R. Grant

For the Governors of Tomorrow: A “Democracy Audit” of the Policy Process

      Derek Wallace

Research Papers

The 2004 New Zealand Living Standards Survey: What Does it Signal about the Importance of Multiple Disadvantage?

      John Jensen, Sathi Sathiyandra and Morna Matangi-Want

What do Children Tell Us about Physical Punishment as a Risk Factor for Child Abuse?

      Terry Dobbs

Risky Work: Child Protection Practice

      Tony Stanley

Problems of Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation Among Russian-Speaking Immigrants In New Zealand

      Elena Maydell-Stevens, Anne-Marie Masgoret, Tony Ward

Warning Voices in a Policy Vacuum: Professional Accounts of Gay Men’s Health in Aotearoa New Zealand

      Jeffery Adams, Virginia Braun, Timothy McCreanor

Reviews

Implications of Population Ageing, Opportunities and Risks edited by Jonathan Boston and Judith A. Davey, Institute of Policy Studies, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington

      reviewed by William Murdoch