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Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State - A Critical Analysis of Australian Social Policy Since 1972 (Hardcover)
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Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State - A Critical Analysis of Australian Social Policy Since 1972 (Hardcover)
Series: Social Welfare Around the World
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This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights
and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare
state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the
Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using
the author's long-standing research on the Australian Council of
Social Service and other welfare advocacy groups, it analyses the
transformation from rights-based to conditional welfare. The Labor
Party Government from 1972-75 is identified as the only clear cut
example of Australia positively using welfare payments and services
as an instrument to promote greater social equity, inclusion and
participation. Since the mid-1970s, the Australian welfare state
has gradually retreated from the social rights agenda conceived by
the Whitlam Government. Australia has followed other Anglo-Saxon
countries in adopting increasingly conditional and paternalistic
measures that undermine the protection of social citizenship
outside the labour market. In contrast, this text makes the case
for an alternative participatory and decentralized welfare state
model that would prioritize social care by empowering and
supporting welfare service users at a local community level. This
book will be of interest to academics, students and policy-makers
working within social policy, social work and political sociology.
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