Australia’s Welfare Wars Revisited: The players, the politics and the ideologies

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Author: Philip Mendes

Number of Pages: 320

This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes’ successful textbook Australia’s Welfare Wars, in which the author explains – and questions – many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. In particular, the book is critical of the Neo-liberal or Economic rationalist ideas that now dominate the welfare debates in Australia and overseas, and instead demonstrates and reaffirms the ongoing relevance of social-democratic and welfare-state ideals.