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Australia's Welfare Wars

Name: Australia's Welfare Wars
ISBN: 9781742248134

The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

Philip Mendes,

411 pages
English
PDF
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - PDF

Australia's Welfare Wars

The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

Philip Mendes,

About this book

A critical analysis of Australia's welfare state, its politics, and ideologies.

In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. This text concentrates on the roles played by ideology and advocacy groups in determining welfare outcomes, with specific reference to up-to-date theories about globalisation.

Students are provided with relevant case study and source material, which is used to analyse and explain contemporary policies and outcomes in the Australian welfare state and to assist them to predict future policy directions. This 3rd edition includes documentation of current levels of welfare spending in Australia, a case study of the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and child welfare policy, and a study of social welfare alternatives from the Nordic states.

Target audience: Students, academics, social workers, and policy practitioners interested in Australian social policy.

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