Australia's welfare wars revisited : the players, the politics and the ideologies

Philip Mendes
Coogee, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, 2008

ISBN: 9780868409917

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Book description
This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes's successful textbook Australia's Welfare Wars (2003), in which the author explains - and questions - many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. Now with a change of government at the Federal level, Mendes has brought the book completely up to date. In particular, the book is critical of the non-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.

About the author
Dr Phillip Mendes is On-campus Coordinator in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

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