RESEARCH ESSAY

Order Description
The aim of this project is for me to do my own piece of social policy analysis.

• Select an area of social policy. Describe the nature of the social problem within that area of policy. How has it been presented by governments and by NGOs? What policy responses and services have been provided to deal with this problem? Are there other ways of responding to the problem?

It is important to use a variety of sources –government reports, policies and statements, submissions from NGOs, articles, books and websites. You must use AT LEAST ONE government report, or a report or submission from a peak body or NGO.
The policy i choose is Poverty

Poverty (you might choose a particular group, like women, Indigenous people, recent immigrants)

Introduction Briefly introduce the social policy area and mention the main points and direction of your argument. State your position.

Describe the social problem
• Why is it a problem? To whom? For how long has it been of concern?
• Particular events that led to the concerns?
• Use of statistics to illustrate nature and extent of problem – use demographic information (gender, age, city versus rural areas)
• What are its social causes (or, how can we understand it sociologically?)
• Is it specifically to do with Australian society? Is it a ‘western’ problem?

Representation of the social problem
• How has the problem been represented by governments and other groups (e.g. community groups/ parents’ groups, academics, private industry/ advertising – e.g. childhood obesity, people with whom the problem is identified)?
• Different perspectives – values/ attitudes (community, family, market, state)
• Different interests and agendas? Here you might also consider what discourses are at play in the different ways that the social problem has been constructed i.e. neo-liberal ideas; arguments about free will and choice; social democratic arguments about citizen rights, and social obligations; ideas about gender, the family, the self… etc

Policy responses
• What policies and services have been put in place to deal with the problem?
• Describe these policies/ services – offered by state, federal or local governments? (E.g., National policy initiatives)
• Solutions offered by ‘private’ enterprises?
• Range of services offered to deal with the problem

Could it be handled differently?
Here is the opportunity for you to exercise your critical faculties and your knowledge of social policy – Can you sugge

Research essay

Order Description

Instructions

Select 1 of the essay questions below to write a research essay. The bibliographies
attached to each question are comprehensive but not exhaustive. Many of the items
listed here will be in e/reserve, many others will be on the library shelves. In
addition to using at least 8 sources for your essay you will need to include at
least 1 primary source for your chosen topic. You will need to find/locate the
primary source yourself. There are some primary source collections listed in the
‘References’ document on iLearn homepage but we would encourage you to also
conduct your own research for this.

Format

Submit essay via turnitin link on iLearn and include the following:

• Essay Question
• 1.5 spacing
• 3cm margin on left hand side (for marker’s comments)
• Page numbers
• Bibliography
• Referencing – please note, only footnotes will be accepted.

answer the essay question very clear and good

6. How were Aboriginal women’s lives impacted by colonisation?

Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Bain Attwood, “ …. In the name of all my coloured brethren and sisters”: a biography of Bessy Cameron’, Hecate, 12:1, 1986, 9-53.
Lyndall Ryan, ‘Aboriginal Women and Agency in the Process of Conquest: A Review of Some Recent Work’ Australian Feminist Studies, 1:2, 1986, 35-43.
Myrna Tomkinson, ‘Sisterhood or Aboriginal Servitude?Black Women and White Women on the Australian Frontier, Aboriginal History, 12:1, 1988, 27-39.
Diane Barwick, ‘ “And the lubras are ladies now” ‘, in Fay Gale ed., Woman’s Role In Aboriginal Society, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1978, 51-63.
Ann McGrath, ‘Birthplaces’, Patricia Grimshaw et al, Creating a Nation, 1788-1990, McPhee Gribble, 1994, 7-26.
Nancy Williams and Leslie Jolly, ‘From Time Immemorial? Gender Relations in Aboriginal Societies Before ‘White Contact’, Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 9-19
Mary Anne Jebb and Anna Haebich, ‘Across the Great Divide. Gender Relations on Australian Frontiers’, Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 20-41.
Jackie Huggins and Thom Blake, ‘Protection or Persecution? Gender Relations in the Era of Racial Segregation’, Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 42-57.
Raymond Evans, ‘Don’t you Remember Black Alice, Same Holt?’, in Raymond Evans, Fighting Words. Writing About Race, University of Queensland Press, 1999, 201-214.
Su-Jane Hunt, Spinifex and Hessian: Women in North-West Australia, 1860-1900, University of Western Australia Press, 1986.
Annette Hamilton, ‘A Complex Strategical Situation: Gender and Power in Aboriginal Australia’, N Grieve and P Grimshaw (eds), Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 69-85
Patricia Grimshaw, Aboriginal Women: A Study of Culture Contact’, N Grieve and P Grimshaw (eds), Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 86-94.
Ann McGrath, “The White Man’s Looking Glass: Aboriginal-Colonial Gender Relations at Port Jackson”, Australian Historical Studies, 24:95, October, 1990, 189-206.

Research essay

Order Description

Instructions

Select 1 of the essay questions below to write a research essay. The bibliographies
attached to each question are comprehensive but not exhaustive. Many of the items
listed here will be in e/reserve, many others will be on the library shelves. In
addition to using at least 8 sources for your essay you will need to include at
least 1 primary source for your chosen topic. You will need to find/locate the
primary source yourself. There are some primary source collections listed in the
‘References’ document on iLearn homepage but we would encourage you to also
conduct your own research for this.

Format

Submit essay via turnitin link on iLearn and include the following:

• Essay Question
• 1.5 spacing
• 3cm margin on left hand side (for marker’s comments)
• Page numbers
• Bibliography
• Referencing – please note, only footnotes will be accepted.

answer the essay question very clear and good

6. How were Aboriginal women’s lives impacted by colonisation?

Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Bain Attwood, “ …. In the name of all my coloured brethren and sisters”: a biography of Bessy Cameron’, Hecate, 12:1, 1986, 9-53.
Lyndall Ryan, ‘Aboriginal Women and Agency in the Process of Conquest: A Review of Some Recent Work’ Australian Feminist Studies, 1:2, 1986, 35-43.
Myrna Tomkinson, ‘Sisterhood or Aboriginal Servitude?Black Women and White Women on the Australian Frontier, Aboriginal History, 12:1, 1988, 27-39.
Diane Barwick, ‘ “And the lubras are ladies now” ‘, in Fay Gale ed., Woman’s Role In Aboriginal Society, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1978, 51-63.
Ann McGrath, ‘Birthplaces’, Patricia Grimshaw et al, Creating a Nation, 1788-1990, McPhee Gribble, 1994, 7-26.
Nancy Williams and Leslie Jolly, ‘From Time Immemorial? Gender Relations in Aboriginal Societies Before ‘White Contact’, Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 9-19
Mary Anne Jebb and Anna Haebich, ‘Across the Great Divide. Gender Relations on Australian Frontiers’, Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 20-41.
Jackie Huggins and Thom Blake, ‘Protection or Persecution? Gender Relations in the Era of Racial Segregation’, Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds), Gender Relations in Australia. Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, 42-57.
Raymond Evans, ‘Don’t you Remember Black Alice, Same Holt?’, in Raymond Evans, Fighting Words. Writing About Race, University of Queensland Press, 1999, 201-214.
Su-Jane Hunt, Spinifex and Hessian: Women in North-West Australia, 1860-1900, University of Western Australia Press, 1986.
Annette Hamilton, ‘A Complex Strategical Situation: Gender and Power in Aboriginal Australia’, N Grieve and P Grimshaw (eds), Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 69-85
Patricia Grimshaw, Aboriginal Women: A Study of Culture Contact’, N Grieve and P Grimshaw (eds), Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981, 86-94.
Ann McGrath, “The White Man’s Looking Glass: Aboriginal-Colonial Gender Relations at Port Jackson”, Australian Historical Studies, 24:95, October, 1990, 189-206.