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Parent employment and child wellbeing: This study looks at how the quality of a parent’s job affects their role as a parent.

Publications include:

• Around-the-clock: parent work schedules and children’s well-being in a 24-h economy [Strazdins, L., Korda, R.J., Lim, L., Broom, D.H. & D’Souza, R.M. in Social Science and Medicine, 59, 2004, pp. 1517-1527].
• The lesser evil: Bad jobs or unemployment? A survey of mid-aged Australians [Broom, D.H., D’Souza, R.M., Strazdins, L., Butterworth, P., Parslow, R. & Rodgers, B. in Social Science and Medicine, 63, 2006, pp. 575-586].
• Work demands, job insecurity and sickness absence from work. How productive is the new, flexible labour force? [D’Souza, R.M., Strazdins, L., Broom, D.H., Rodgers, B. & Berry, H.L. in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 30(3), 2006, pp.205-212].
• Voting with their feet: Family friendliness and parent employment in Australian Industries, 1981-2001 [Strazdins, L., Broom, D.H., Meyerkort, S. & Warren, B. in Australian Bulletin of Labour, 32(4), 2006, pp. 381-400].

Trends in Child Deaths in NSW from 1996 to 2005: Investigating whether child deaths have significantly increased or decreased over the past decade for particular causes of death based on information such how old they are and where they live.

• Trends in Child Deaths in New South Wales 1996-2005

Children and young people’s well-being: Investigated what well-being means to 126 children aged between eight and 15 years from around New South Wales.

• Ask the Children: An Overview of Children’s Understandings of Well-being.

Children at work: Examined the work experiences of 11,000 children and young people in Years 7 to 10.

• Children at Work report
  Ask the Children: Young people speak about their experiences of work

AWARE (A Workplace and Applicant Risk Estimate): Evaluated the Working With Children Check Risk Assessment model and developed a new model for estimating risk known as AWARE. We will continue to improve AWARE on the basis of new research findings and the data we collect through the use of the model.

Sudden unexpected infant deaths: Examined the sudden unexpected deaths of infants in NSW and made nine recommendations for change to help prevent deaths and better respond to sudden unexpected infant deaths when they do occur.

• Sudden unexpected deaths in infancy: the NSW experience report

Suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people: Investigated suicide and risk-taking deaths of young people in NSW aged between 12 and 17 years over the period 1996 to 2000.

• Suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people report

Fatal assault of children and young people: Investigated fatal assaults of 60 children and young people in NSW between January 1996 and June 1999.

• Fatal assault of children and young people report

Fatal assault and neglect of children and young people: Investigated fatal assault and neglect deaths of children and young people in NSW between July 1999 and December 2003.

• Fatal assault and neglect of children and young people report

Paid Maternity leave: The June 2007 nation-wide Newspoll survey we commissioned with the National Foundation for Australian Women and the National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTeY) found that there was wide support for paid maternity leave (76%) for working women.

These and other publications can be found on the Commission's reports and publications page.