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Title Australia's welfare / editor: Justin Healey
Published Balmain, N.S.W. : Spinney Press, 2000

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Description 44 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Series Issues in society ; v. 123
Issues in society (Balmain, N.S.W.) ; v. 123
Contents Chapter 1. The Welfare System: What is the welfare system and who uses it?; Australia's welfare services expenditure; Welfare expenditure; Poverty factsheet; Gap between rich, poor widens; Older unemployed people; Unemployed people on Newstart Allowance or Youth Allowance; People with disabilities; Parenting Payment; Welfare providers told to lift game; Charitable organisations in Australia; Welfare agencies struggling to cope; Business, welfare must join hands; It's a tough business being benevolent. -- Chapter 2. Welfare Reform and Debate: The future of welfare in the 21st century; Facts about unemployed people; Facts about Disability Support Pension; Facts about Parenting Payment; Welfare shake-up may hit families; Welfare reform requires compassion, not a stick; State isn't doing a good job; Any revamp of the welfare system must tackle poverty; Welfare obligations must be a two-way street; Work for the dole; Mutual obligation; Work for the dole: summary from an ACOSS briefing paper; Lessons in responsibility for the unemployed; Read and write, or lose dole; Carrot and stick work better if there's less stick; Pressure on sole parents to find a job; Single mums forgo dole for values; Land where pensions are as poisonous as grog; Extra cash for Aborigines fails to lift tyranny of disadvantage
Summary Australia may still be the Lucky Country for some, but how do we as a nation look after the less fortunate without encouraging welfare dependency? What are the respective roles of government, non- government organisations and charities in providing for the needy? Includes discussion of issues such as Work for the Dole schemes
Analysis Federal issue
Low income
Nongovernment welfare sector
Social Security payments
Social security payments
Statistics
Welfare measures
Welfare state
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 42)
Audience Secondary and tertiary students and teachers
Subject Charities -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Australia.
Charities.
Public welfare -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Australia.
Charities -- Australia.
Public welfare -- Australia.
Public welfare.
Social security -- Australia.
Welfare economics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Welfare economics.
Welfare state -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Welfare state -- Australia.
Welfare state.
SUBJECT Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
Author Healey, Justin.
LC no. 00002087
ISBN 1876811323