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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.
More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on
the consequences of income management policies in Australia and New
Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study, it explores the lived
experience of those for whom core welfare benefits and services are
dependent on government conceptions of 'responsible' behaviour. It
analyses whether officially claimed positive intentions and
benefits of the schemes are outweighed by negative impacts that
deepen the poverty and stigma of marginalised and disadvantaged
groups. This novel study considers the future of this form of
welfare conditionality and addresses wider questions of fairness
and social justice.
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.
This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about
leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national
and international levels. Bringing together contributors from
fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice
issues within national, international or comparative contexts.
These include youth justice, disability, access to higher
education, the role of advocacy groups, ethical challenges and
cultural factors. In doing so it demonstrates that, whilst young
people are universally a vulnerable group, there are vast
differences in their experiences of out-of-home care and
transitions from care, and their shorter and longer-term outcomes.
Equally, there are significant variations between jurisdictions in
terms of the legislative, policy and practice supports and
opportunities made available to them. This significant edited
collection is essential reading for all those who work with young
people from care, including social workers, counsellors, and youth
and community practitioners, as well as for students and scholars
of child welfare.
This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about
leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national
and international levels. Bringing together contributors from
fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice
issues within national, international or comparative contexts.
These include youth justice, disability, access to higher
education, the role of advocacy groups, ethical challenges and
cultural factors. In doing so it demonstrates that, whilst young
people are universally a vulnerable group, there are vast
differences in their experiences of out-of-home care and
transitions from care, and their shorter and longer-term outcomes.
Equally, there are significant variations between jurisdictions in
terms of the legislative, policy and practice supports and
opportunities made available to them. This significant edited
collection is essential reading for all those who work with young
people from care, including social workers, counsellors, and youth
and community practitioners, as well as for students and scholars
of child welfare.
The first study to comprehensively examine the role played by ACOSS
in the Australian social policy debate; The implications of
Australian welfare state debates and agendas for other advanced
welfare states. The Australian welfare lobby group -- the
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) -- has played a
central role in the welfare politics debate as the foremost
defender of the Australian welfare state. ACOSS is widely
recognised as one of the most important lobby groups in Australia,
and enjoys regular access to the media and key policy makers in
government and the bureaucracy. Relevant case studies and source
material are used to draw attention to: The role that interest
groups play in the formation of government policy agendas; The
lobbying strategies used by welfare advocacy groups to influence
welfare state outcomes; The relationship between the welfare sector
and other key lobby groups and political parties; The impact of key
contemporary influences such as neo-liberalism and economic
globalisation which have arguably transformed the political context
within which welfare advocacy groups operate.
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