Making Social Policy in Australia: An IntroductionSocial policy affects everyone and is everyone's business. Even if you do not receive welfare payments, directly or indirectly you benefit from government servides and funding. Yet how are policies and programs actually developed? Can social policy help us create a more just society? This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of social policy making in Australia. Using detailed case studies, it covers: * the ideas and values which inform the social policy process * how different groups can influence policy making * how social policy making takes place in social and political organisations * the political nature of policy making Making Social Policy in Australia is the most up to date introduction to Australian social policy currently available, and is essential reading for students and practitioners in human and community service work and government. Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman lecture in Social Work and Social Sciences at Rmit, Melbourne; Wendy Weeks lectures in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne and is author (in collaboration) of Women Working Together: Lessons from feminist women's services. Each of the authors has been involved in policy debate and development for many years. |
Contents
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Debates about social goals | 40 |
Organisational maps and policy making | 57 |
Working in organisations | 78 |
governments citizens | 91 |
The policy process as power and contest | 105 |
Introduction to the case studies | 123 |
The Kurdswho are they? Establishing Kurdish identity | 154 |
implementation problems in | 167 |
Policy and planning in community servicesa role | 181 |
privatisation of the Port Macquarie Base | 195 |
education policy and the Kennett | 210 |
Glossary | 223 |
Index | 243 |
How violence against women became an issue on the national | 141 |
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Page 47 - ... no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself...
Page 30 - Each nation's primary assets will be its citizens' skills and insights. Each nation's primary political task will be to cope with the centrifugal forces of the global economy which tear at the ties binding citizens together — bestowing ever greater wealth on the most skilled and insightful, while consigning the less skilled to a declining standard of living.
Page 47 - It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilized society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source, not in individual differences, but in its own organisation, and that individual differences, which are a source of social energy, are more likely to ripen and find expression if social inequalities are, as far as practicable, diminished.
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Page 44 - So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetual! and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death.
Page 112 - Problem settings are mediated, I believe, by the "stories" people tell about troublesome situations - stories in which they describe what is wrong and what needs fixing. When we examine the problem-setting stories told by the analysts and practitioners of social policy, it becomes apparent that the framing of problems often depends upon metaphors underlying the stories which generate problem setting and set the directions of problem solving. One of the most pervasive stories about social services,...
Page 46 - The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together. Though I care as little about riches, as any man, I am a friend to riches because they are capable of good. I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.
Page 45 - ... utilitarian. For consider: each man in realizing his own interests is certainly free to balance his own losses against his own gains. We may impose a sacrifice on ourselves now for the sake of a greater advantage later. A person quite properly acts, at least when others are not affected, to achieve his own greatest good, to advance his rational ends as far as possible.
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