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

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Australia's Welfare Wars considers the roles played by key ideologies and lobby groups in determining welfare state outcomes with specific reference to current theories about globalisation.

In doing this, it looks at the players' roles - Lobby groups ACOSS (the Australian Council of Social Service), the ACTU (the Australian Council of Trade Unions), the business sector, the churches, welfare consumers, neoliberal think tanks and the media.

The influence of politics - Economic rationalism, social democracy and the Blair government's ' Third Way'

The impact of ideology - Economic globalisation and global social policy.

The book uses late 20th-century case studies and source materials to analyse and explain Australian welfare state policies and outcomes. It questions many of the key assumptions that underpin then social welfare policies.