Australia's Welfare Wars: The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

by Philip Mendes

Overview

In this fully revised third edition of Australia’s Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742234786
Publisher:	UNSW Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Edition description:	Third edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Philip Mendes is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research unit in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University. He has been a social work and social policy practitioner and educator for 30 years, with particular experience in the fields of income security, young people leaving out-of-home care, social workers and policy practice, and illicit drugs.