The rise of the Australian welfare state -- The wage earners welfare state and the rediscovery of poverty -- The social democratic Whitlam labor government 1972-75 -- The anti-welfare backlash locally and internationally -- The decline of Keynesianism, the revival of classical liberalism and the...

Community development is generally considered to be a core component of social work practice and knowledge. Yet much professional social work education and discourse seems to relegate community development to the margins. This paper critically analyses the development of a community development...

Rights of first refusal and options to negotiate are tools used to facilitate technology transfer, particularly between universities and other research organisations, to companies. The legal status of these rights are often misunderstood. The legal status and enforceability of these rights is...

The joint ownership of a patent suggests a mutual and equal relationship between the joint owners, with each joint owner mutually and equally sharing the benefits of joint ownership with the other joint owners. But that is not the case. Joint ownership laws around the world can result in a joint...

All universities and other research organisations (for brevity, the term “university” is employed, and refers not just to a university, but to all forms of a non-for-profit research organisation) have intellectual property (IP) policies. Like other policies, they serve an important function,...