This book explores the role played by ideologies and lobby groups in determining welfare state outcomes with specific reference to up-to-date theories about glo

In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary soci

This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining

In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary soci

In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a