Understanding the Australian welfare state : key documents and themes / editors, Anthony McMahon, Jane Thomson, Christopher Williams
- Bib ID:
- 1775072
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
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- Croydon, Vic. : Tertiary Press, 2000
- xiii, 283p. ; 23cm.
- ISBN:
- 0864581351 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Using documents in teaching about the welfare state / Jane Thomson
- 2. Understanding the welfare state / Anthony McMahon
- Part 1. A wage earner's welfare state
- 3. Work, wages, welfare / Frank Stilwell
- Documents: Harvester Judgement 1907; White Paper on Full Employment 1945; Statement of Accord 1983; Working Nation 1994; Work for the Dole 1998
- Part 2. A gendered welfare state
- 4. Women's citizenship: back in the family?
- Documents: Child Endowment Bill 1941; Child Care Bill 1972; Equal Pay 1974; Sex Discrimination Act 1984; National Agenda for Women 1988; Maternity Allowance 1995; Working Nation 1994; Delivering on our Commitments for Women 1999
- 5. One size fits all?: gender and the capitalist welfare state in Australia / Jane Thomson
- Part 3. A racist welfare state
- 6. Indigenous social welfare: from a low priority to recognition and reconciliation / Henry Reynolds
- Documents: The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897; Immigration Restriction Act 1901; National Racial Unity 1901; Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities 1937; Minister for Immigration and Information 1945; Yirrkala Petition 1963; Appeal to the United Nations 1966; Constitution Alteration Act 1967; Racial Discrimination Act 1975; National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia 1989; Mabo Case 1992; Native Title Act 1993; The Wik Decision 1996; Stolen Generations 1997; Charter of Public Service in a Culturally Diverse Society 1998; Pauline Hanson's One Nation Policy Document 1998; Motion of Reconciliation 1999; Draft Declaration for Reconciliation 1999
- 7. Immigration and the Australian welfare state / James Jupp
- Part 4. A Welfare state for the deserving
- 8. Back to the future: deserving and undeserving in the welfare state / Christopher Williams and Anthony McMahon
- Documents: Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act 1908; Australian Soldiers Repatriation Bill 1917; Income Tax Assessment Act 1936; National Health and Pensions Insurance Bill 1938; Preference for UK migrants 1946; Commission of Inquiry into Poverty 1975; Nursing Homes and Hostels Review 1986; Home and Community Care Program 1989; National Commission of Audit 1996; Aged Care Act 1997; Principle of Mutual Obligation 1998; Disappearance of Social Justice 1999
- 9. Constructing and reconstructing old age: the evolution of aged policy in Australia / Elizabeth Ozanne
- Part 5. The welfare state as contested terrain
- 10. The welfare state as disputed terrain / Ronald Mendelsohn
- Documents: First Report of the Joint Committee on Social Security 1941; Poverty in Australia 1975; Social Security Review 1986; The Social Justice Strategy 1991-1992; Workplace Relations Act 1996; Goods and Services Tax 1999
- 11. All for one or one for all? The past and future of the Australian welfare state / John Wiseman
- 12. 'Reinventing' the welfare state: neo-liberalism and beyond / Christopher Williams. H aP
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Second ed. of The Australian welfare state : key documents and themes / edited by John Wilson, Jane Thomson, Anthony McMahon.
- Bibliography: p. [263]-276.
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