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Newspaper articles  The Australian, 12 January 2008  Extra Years at School Pay Dividends The Age, 12 January 2008  The Working Week The Australian, 27 November 2007  Less Stress Despite Rate Hikes The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2007  Smokers Go for Broke While Quitters Save The Australian, 26 October 2007  Pressure to Work Long Hours Eases The Age, 20 October 2007  Average Family 'Doing Very Well' The Australian, 9 October 2007  Expert Slams AWAs Report The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 2007  Time for Women to Take a Leap into Building Super Courier Mail, 18 August 2007  The Perfect Boss is Yourself The Australian, 18 August 2007  The Other Woman The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 July 2007   Rate Rise Shouldn't Bring the House Down The Herald Sun, 23 July 2007  Stop Putting Down the Dads The Australian, 20 July 2007   Part-time No Penalty for Mums The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2007   The Boomers' Future: Who Cares? The Age, 17 July 2007   Loss of Partner Doubles Housing Cost Burden The Weekend Australian, 14 July 2007   Mortgage Belt Not Strangled by Debt The Age, 10 July 2007   Fertility and Division of Household Labour The Australian, 10 July 2007   The Grey Divide The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 July 2007   Not Using All the Workforce's Talents a Waste of Resources The Weekend Australian Financial Review, 23-24 June 2007  Bring It On - We're Not Such Fragile Blossoms After All The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2007   Working Poor Total Almost a Million The Australian, 13 March 2007   The World of Long Working Hours The Australian, 10 March 2007   Why Working on Family Matters The Age, 1 February 2007   Retiring Tough on Divorced Boomers The West Australian, 30 November 2006   Million-plus Can't Escape 50-hour Slog The West Australian, 16 October 2006   Women's Choices Set Gender Gap in Wages The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2006   Men Aren't Broody Enough to Lift Birth Rate The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2006   Money Can Buy Happiness The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2006   Stressful, But Difficulties Get Smaller as Children Get Bigger On Line Opinion, 8 March 2006   Only Rich People Want to Lower the Top Tax Rate The Age, 29 September 2005   Bans Hit Home for Older Smokers The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 September 2005   Bad News for New Mothers: Your Pay Packet's Looking a Little Light On The Age, 25 August 2005   Lift That Bar, Tote That Bale The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 August 2005   Tax Cut Jackpot for Hard Workers The Age, 17 June 2005   Uni Degree and Age Key to Wealth Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June 2005   Income and Education Point to Wealth The Age, 5 May 2005   Little Joy for Commuters University of Melbourne Media Release (reported in Portland Observer, 18 April 2005)   Snapshot of Australian Households Unearths Changes in How We Live Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 2005   HILDA Knows but Harry Doesn't The Age, 26 February 2005   The Solitary Confinement of the Aussie Bloke Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 2005   Blokes Warned: Get Married, or be Lonely When Your Mates Do Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 2005   Women Live Longer if They Throw Away the Ring Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 2004   Debt's High but Look Where it is The Age, 1 December 2004   Exploding the Living-Beyond-Our-Means Myth Sydney Morning Herald, 27 September 2004   Sole Parent Health Woes Hamper Job Search The Age, 11 July 2004   A Good Time to be Aged 35 to 54 Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 2004   Sorry, Money Still Doesn’t Buy Happiness Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2004   Money Can Buy Happiness The Sun Herald, 23 May 2004   Dramatic Rise in Single Parents The Age, 23 May 2004   More Children Live Divided Life All Homes Local News, May 2004  More Than One in 10 Invest in Housing ABC Radio - The World Today, 23 April 2004   New Research Finds Skewed Distribution of Wealth in Australia Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2004   House Prices Widening Wealth Gap The Age, 16 April 2004  Rich Still Getting Richer ABC Radio AM, 5 April 2004  Charity Warns of Emergence of Permanent Underclass The Age, 3 April 2004  Happiness is a Long, Hard Week AMP-NATSEM Income and Wealth Report Issue 7. March 2004  The Lump Sum - Here Today Gone Tomorrow News Bulletin Archive, 20 February 2004  Survey of our Household Habits The Sun-Herald, 15 February 2004  Middle-aged Grab Biggest Share of Wealth Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 2004  Shifting is a Nightmare, but it's Part of the Australian dream Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 2004  Pack it and Stack it - We're a Nation of Money-making Movers The Sunday Age, 14 February 2004  Many Rich on Snakes, Not Just Ladders The Age, 20 November 2003  When Dads Do Time Sunday Age, 16 November 2003  Hey, Isn't It My Turn Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2003  Baby's Home but Not Daddy Pursuing Opportunity and Prosperity Conference, University of Melbourne, 14 November 2003   Speech by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Sydney Morning Herald, 29 July 2003  The Labour of Love that Makes Divorce Harder Work for Fathers The Age, 29 July 2003  Goward Joins 'Blame Dad' Brigade on Custody Sydney Morning Herald, 31 May 2003  Battles in the War between Work and Family Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2003  Baby it's Time Sydney Morning Herald, 2 April 2003  No Shame in Choosing Dough Over the Regular Joe Radio National, 12 March 2003  Stressed Out Debate Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 2003  What Career Women Want - Babies The Age, 12 March 2003  Wealthy Women Want Children Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 2003  Slaves to the Clock and Unhappy - That's a Bit Rich Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 2003  Myths and Misconceptions The Age, 9 November 2002   Don't Call Me Daddy Sydney Morning Herald, 19 October 2002  Year 12 is Still the Best Way to Get a Foot on the Career Ladder Sydney Morning Herald, 16 October 2002  Men are Giving the Father Factor a Miss