| Description |
xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Issues in Australian welfare reform / Peter Saunders -- 2. Welfare reform and the family: lessons from America / Lawrence Mead -- 3. Welfare dependency and economic opportunity: a response to Lawrence Mead / Frank Field -- 4. Welfare reform in Britain, Australia and the United States / Alan Buckingham -- 5. Trans-generational income support dependence in Australia: early evidence / Frances McCoull and Jocelyn Pech -- 6. Australian youth and the dependency culture / Peter Saunders and Wendy Stone -- 7. Passive welfare and the destruction of indigenous society in Australia / Noel Pearson -- 8. Mutual obligation: what kind of contract is this? / Anna Yeatman -- 9. A sorry tale: welfare against the family / Lucy Sullivan -- 10. Families, work and welfare / Fiona MacDonald and Don Siemon -- 11. Labour market issues in welfare reform / Peter Dawkins -- 12. Examining the assumptions behind the welfare review / Michael Raper |
| Analysis |
Aborigines |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
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Families |
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Family |
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Federal issue |
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Great Britain |
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Income maintenance |
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Mutual obligation |
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Reform |
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Unemployed |
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United States |
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Welfare dependence |
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Welfare measures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index |
| Notes |
Australian Institute of Family Studies - Commonwealth of Australia 2000 |
| Subject |
Families -- Australia.
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Family policy -- Australia.
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Labor market -- Australia.
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Public welfare -- Australia.
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Public welfare.
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Welfare recipients -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100478
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| Author |
Saunders, Peter, 1950 August 30-
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Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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| LC no. |
00456645 |
| ISBN |
0642394741 |
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