General Links - Research and Stats You Can Trust

• The Brotherhood of St Lawrence produces a range of magic up-to-date articles and research on all sorts of issues about unemployment, the poor, surviving on Housing Estates etc.
• Unemployment Stats: a NSW Community Economic Development newsletter from State and Regional Development offices throughoout NSW; ph: 93386722.
• ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Services)
• NCOSS (NSW Council of Social Services)
• CPE (Centre for Popular Education at UTS) - great range of books, articles and workshops on popular education, community strengthening etc.
• RIHSS (Research Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences, the University of Sydney) - runs excellent workshops, research and writing.
• John Buchanan's excellent leftist research centre at Sydney Uni. on employment, workplace issues etc
• Community Builders Web-site - nsw government site with great range of resources & links

• http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/search.html: an excellent source of up-to-date educational research, for instance: Lifelong learning and older workers by Tom Karmel & Davinia Woods (23/12/04), concludes, rather obviously but usefully, that the more qualifications the better, and that education and training increase employability among older workers just as they do with all other workers.