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  1. 454 CHILDREN IN STATE CARE
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Wednesday 7 November 1945 p 22 Article
    A total of 454 children were being maintained by the State, said the annual report of the Director of Social Services (Mr H. R. Read) tabled in ... 192 words
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  2. Social Service Costs Rise
    Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954) Saturday 9 July 1949 p 2 Article
    Canberra.—Expenditure on social service benefits paid by the Commonwealth Government increased during the financial year 1947-48 ... 165 words
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  3. More Children Legally Adopted
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Wednesday 29 November 1944 p 7 Article
    Applications from married couples for the legal adoption of children were more numerous last year, according to the annual report of the Social Services ... 98 words
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  4. EXTENSION OF ALMONERS' WORK
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 20 September 1945 p 10 Article
    A new attitude toward all types of problems—particularly social problems—and a growing realisation of the close connection between social ... 162 words
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  5. Value OS Association Of Social Workers
    The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) Tuesday 24 March 1953 p 9 Article
    On March 30. at 8 p.m., the annual meeting of the SA branch of the Australian Association of ... 268 words
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  6. More Public Servants In N.S.W.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Wednesday 5 November 1952 p 2 Article
    The annual report of the Public Service Board for 1951-52 says that the size of the Public Service increased by ... 163 words
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  7. Social Workers' Important Job
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 22 May 1947 p 14 Article Illustrated
    Miss Jean Ritchie, a social worker attached to the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in Brisbane, is spending a week in Sydney meeting members of the Board of Social Studies at Sydney University, and workers in her own field. ... 458 words
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  8. Social Service Director's Visit
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Thursday 5 July 1945 p 4 Article Illustrated
    Miss Lyra Taylor, director of the Commonwealth Social Services Research Bureau, will arrive by mail train on Saturday for the ... 148 words
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    Lyra Taylor

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  9. NATIONAL NEED IN SOCIAL SERVICES
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Wednesday 5 February 1947 p 10 Article
    PARTICULAR regard should be paid to Australian temperament and environment in our social service work, and we should not slavishly copy oversea methods and techniques, said the head of the research bureau of ... 432 words
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    Research Bureau of the Commonwealth Dept. of Social Services

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  10. Growing Need For Research In Social Service Field
    The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) Wednesday 1 May 1946 p 3 Article
    Miss Lyra Taylor, head of the research bureau of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, arrived in Adelaide yesterday for a short visit during which she will address members of the Rotary Clubs of Adelaide and Port ... 337 words
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  11. IMPORTANCE OF CAUSES IN SOCIAL DISTRESS
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Thursday 23 March 1950 p 6 Article
    WHAT really mattered in social work was to get at the underlying cause of a person's difficulty, Miss Lyra Taylor told a meeting of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers in Hobart ... 232 words
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    Miss Lyra Taylor - brief bio

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  12. OLD TYPE OF SOCIAL AID GONE
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Friday 4 October 1946 p 6 Article
    THE older school of social workers, the "Do Gooders," was rapidly passing away, Miss Lyra Taylor ... 309 words
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  13. 'SOCIAL WORKERS LOST TO SOUTH"
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Tuesday 15 April 1947 p 6 Article
    QUEENSLAND is losing its youthful social workers to the south, because it has no training course for them. Young people go south to rain and stay." ... 288 words
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  14. Distinguished Woman Coming Home On Leave
    The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953) Sunday 14 June 1953 p 25 Article
    A DISTINGUISHED Sydney woman, Miss Eleanor Hinder, will return shortly on "home leave" ... 405 words
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    Miss Eleanor Hinder

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  15. Liberals And The Social Service State
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Thursday 14 October 1948 p 2 Article
    A MAJOR feature of Socialist propaganda is the insistence that it is the function of Government to provide the ... 1168 words
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  16. SHORTAGE OF SOCIAL WORKERS
    Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954) Friday 23 August 1946 p 1 Article
    NEW YORK, Thursday. — There was an appalling dearth of trained social workers in Australia, said Mr. F. H. Rowe, ... 145 words
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  17. "CRADLE TO GRAVE" Social Services
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Saturday 13 May 1944 p 3 Article
    NEW YORK, Fri. (AAP).— The full ILO conference has adopted the complete "cradle to the grave" social services plan ... 192 words
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  18. Britain's Social Security CRADLE TO GRAVE
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Tuesday 6 July 1948 p 1 Article
    LONDON, July 5 (Special and A.A.P.).—Britain's national social security scheme, with benefits "from ... 457 words
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  19. The Answer To Your Question DIVORCEES MAY GET PENSIONS
    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) Monday 15 June 1953 p 13 Article
    A divorced woman is entitled to a widow's pension subject to a means test as to income and property. The Department of Social ... 693 words
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  20. AUSTRALIA! READ ALL ABOUT IT
    Worker (Brisbane, Qld. : 1890 - 1955) Monday 1 September 1947 p 13 Article
    After a lapse of nearly three years, another issue of that valuable book of reference, the Commonwealth Year Book, has come ... 167 words
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  21. HIGHER PENSIONS First Payments To Be Made Today
    The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) Thursday 3 July 1947 p 7 Article
    CANBERRA, July 2.—The increase of 10/ a fortnight in old-age and invalid pensions and wives' allowances would be paid tomorrow, ... 77 words
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  22. U.S.A. PLAN FOR SOCIAL SECURITY
    The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954) Saturday 9 January 1943 p 2 Article
    NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—An American Beveridge plan, encompassing cradle to the grave social security programme, has been prepared for ... 81 words
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