User:LPascal/My other work

My other work
I worked for 24 years in the Australian Public Service. I have researched, written and published reports, policy papers and national strategies for cultural heritage, gender equality, family relationships, fathers, child protection. Prior to the public service, I worked in local government, taught professional communication at university, worked with young people with disabilities and as a youthworker. Aside from my professional writing, in the early 2000s I wrote short stories with five of them published. I use my three tertiary qualifications in history, education and librarianship and my research experience to write articles on Wikipedia.

Highlights
Director of research and data for the National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children, 2017-2018

Director, Australian Government Office for Women, 2007-2012


 * Prepared, published and delivered the Women’s Budget Statement for the Australian Government two days after Budget, annually for five years, 2007-2012
 * Established the Australian Gender Indicators published by the ABS, www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4125.0
 * Commissioned and published research on sharing of unpaid care between men and women, women’s homelessness, superannuation and women, women’s workforce participation, women’s human rights, women and the tax and transfer system, international best practice in gender mainstreaming.

Facilities and conservation advisor, new National Museum Construction Coordination Taskforce, 1998

Wrote and published National Conservation and Preservation Strategy for Australia’s Heritage Collections, 1997, with the Heritage Collections Council.

Project officer, National Office of Local Government, advising on that new-fangled thing, the Internet, libraries as local access points, how government could use it to communicate and provide services, 1994-95.

Fiction
I have had five short stories published and I am included in the AustLit database austlit.edu.au


 * “The oleander”, Reid's Magazine: The short fiction and poetry magazine, March vol. 1, no. 1, 2005; (p. 39-40)
 * “Blackbirds”, All change please, 2004, Cardigan Press, (p 22)
 * “Home”, The Canberra Times, 10 January 2004, (p. 8a)
 * “Bush baby”, The Canberra Times, 23 March 2002, (p 20)
 * “Nan's home for drovers”, Blast, Winter no. 47 2002, (p 10).

Research, non-fiction

 * National Conservation and Preservation Strategy for Australia’s Heritage Collections, https://aiccm.org.au/conservation/collection-care/


 * Helena Scott, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/scott-helena-nellie-4926


 * The heart of the nation’s existence: A review of reports on the treatment of children in Australian detention centres, attachment to Chilout Submission 29 to Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs inquiry into Children in Institutional Care, 2005, https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/community_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist