Category: Working papers
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2 Slow community: Face to face
I have some good men friends, greatly valued. I have coffee with them most mornings in the local cafe. I often think of the group of black men of much the same older age in south Chicago whom Mitchell Duneier wrote about, in 1992, with much affection and sympathy, in his Slim’s Table; they seem…
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1 Slow Community: Walking with our people
By Geoff Wells Every morning, unless the westerlies are coming in wild, I walk the path around the boat harbour in the small Australian coastal town where I live. The path moves through native trees and shrubs which grow right down to the water’s edge, salt-tolerant. The first section of it is gravelled; then, without…
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State History Conference Presentation: Robe Conservation Study 1979
On October 25 Dr Geoff Wells presented to the State History Conference 2015 at Robe SA, on the Robe Conservation Study 1979. This study was a ground-breaking piece of work in many ways. Mounted at the end of a decade which had seen the first substantial building blocks put in place in environmental policy and…
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Social Impact Bonds and systemic risk: a preliminary analysis
Social investment has become a new and widely-embraced approach to increasing funding in the social services sector. Associated with it is an anticipated change in the way the not-for-profit sector operates, moving it to more explicitly business and managerial practice. It is hoped that by engaging commercial incentives, and by using commercial principles and mechanisms,…
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RCA submission to the SA Parliamentary Inquiry on Fracking
There is a strong push on to commence fracking operations on an industrial scale in the south-east of South Australia. RCA opposes the initiative. The push is coming from mining companies, such as Beach Energy, and is supported by both sides of politics. A Parliamentary committee has been established to inquire into fracking in the…