What is a fair wage? Is there a right to work? Is there a right to
shelter or to good health? What are the entitlements of those who
cannot work? Can opportunities be equal? For women? For Aborigines?
For more than a century, Australians have addressed expectations of
social justice to their governments and have had to live with the
consequences. This book looks at how changing circumstances have
generated changing popular aspirations, and how these in turn have
been translated into public policy. It argues that social justice
has no single meaning and is in fact the site of conflicting and
divergent endeavours. Precisely for this reason it has a special
relevance for the age of consensus. The first part of this book
uses these shifting interpretations of social justice as a lodestar
to chart a new course through the history of this country. The
second part shows how it operates today as a focus of debate in
areas ranging from education to Aboriginal land rights. The book
therefore offers a new perspective on the past and a trenchant
analysis of the present. It draws together a wide range of material
and presents it by means of case studies that assume no specialist
knowledge. It will appeal to students of Australian history, public
policy and social welfare; and it is addressed to all readers with
an interest in the future of their country.
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