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Researching Giving and Volunteering in Australia
Author(s) -
Lyons Mark,
McGregorLowndes Myles,
O'Donoghue Philip
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2006.tb00995.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , government (linguistics) , mythology , public relations , sociology , public administration , rest (music) , political science , media studies , social science , law , history , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , cardiology , classics
The giving of time and money, mainly to private nonprofit organisations is not trivial, but in Australia has been little studied. This article introduces a special issue of the Australian Journal of Social Issues which draws on data collected in the largest study of giving and volunteering conducted in Australia hitherto. It seeks to establish terminological guidelines and reviews past Australian research on giving and volunteering, arguing that there has been a disproportionate interest in volunteering. It seeks to put to rest some common myths about giving and explores whether the increase in giving and volunteering can be attributed to government policy. It concludes by introducing the other papers in the collection.