In this paper, we focus on the economic integration of black African immigrants settling in Queensland by examining their experiences and views on employment within Australia's labor market. The paper draws on findings from a qualitative study conducted in Southeast Queensland. The study examines how black African immigrants define their identity, socioeconomic wellbeing and sense of belonging in white majority Australia. The findings suggest that settlement and integration policies in Australia need to be informed by immigrants' employment experiences. The paper contributes to the literature on the role of employment in the settlement and integration processes of racially and culturally different immigrants.

Sally Swartz's article on case-notes raises a number of questions which are worth reflecting upon: what are case-notes? What purposes do they serve? Whose purposes do they serve? And for me, as a narrative therapist, what meaning is being performed by the production of case-notes? And how different are casenotes from the co-authored stories that engage both parties (client and therapist) in the development of a new story? And how does the 'third voice' that Sally Swartz proposes fit with a narrative perspective?What are case-notes? Sally offers the definition as 'textual records between mental health practitioners and their clients'. An alternative description is offered by Pilkington and Fraser (1992) of 'secret biographies, the stories told about people without their knowledge or even in their own language, and exclusively the domain of the practitioner. They argue that case-notes (or 'files') serve as a template by which the client is defined and circumscribed within the therapy arena; these secret biographies are stories told about people without either their consent or often their recognition of the life described. This is an area which has interested me for a very long time. I have previously (1990) drawn a parallel between the case-notes of therapy and the field-notes of anthropology, indicating that such notes describe from a position of unchallengeable authority. The authorial voice of the maker of the case-notes is that of an expert, who speaks a language that the client (or the anthropological 'field') cannot know, precisely because it is the language or dialect of a specific academic western discipline. All such notes are written in a form of code, distinguishable by others who are privy to the code, but completely opaque to all others. This obviously raises significant issues of the power relations that come into being by the act of making such notes, irrespective of the mandated institutional requirements. Case-notes, by the

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The idea that the media may be connected or intertwined with social movements is not new, and this paper seeks to examine some questions that arise from thinking about the history of the media in the Western world. There are a range of questions that demand exploration with the conflation of the two discourses: Has the media enabled, demanded or actively created a space for the inclusion of varying groups in society and how has this been done? Is it that the movements would have existed without the transmission of their central ideas through the media? Have those

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