Refereed Proceedings of the National Social Policy Conference 2001

edited by Tony Eardley and Bruce Bradbury, April 2002.

ISSN 1446 4179
ISBN 0 7334 1914 3

Editorial Note:
The papers in this collection are a selection of those presented at the National Social Policy Conference, 2001, held at the University of New South Wales on 4-6 July 2001. The selection of papers is based on reviewing by independent referees in accordance with the Department of Education, Science and Training's E1 publication category. Please note that the views expressed in all papers are those of the respective authors and not necessarily those of the Social Policy Research Centre. The editors would like to thank, Annie Parkinson and Diana Encel for their assistance with text editing and Duncan Aldridge and Rosita Lang for report production.
Tony Eardley and Bruce Bradbury

Foreword by Peter Saunders

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Keynote Address

Anna Yeatman Social Policy, Freedom and Individuality (156 Kb)

Plenary Address

David Ellwood The US Vision of Work Based Reform: Promise, Prospects and Pitfalls (133 Kb)

Contributed Papers

Jon Altman Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in the 21st Century: Beyond the Limits of Universalism in Australian Social Policy?
(63 Kb)
Maureen Baker and David Tippin Health, Beneficiaries and Welfare to Work: Competing Visions of Employability (106 Kb)

Janeen Baxter Changes in the Gender Division of Household Labour in Australia, 1986-1997
(96 Kb)
Sue Casey Snakes and Ladders: Women's Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness (85 Kb)

Gill Considine and Gianni Zappala Factors Influencing the Educational Performance of Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds (204 Kb)

Peter Davidson Employment Assistance for Long-term Unemployed People: Time for a Re-think (59 Kb)

David De Carvalho The Social Contract Renegotiated: Protecting Public Values in the Age of Contracting (167 Kb)

James Doughney Socioeconomic Banditry: Poker Machines and Income Redistribution in Victoria (208 Kb)

Brian Fleming Targeting Aged Care to People who are Financially or Socially Disadvantaged: Policy Evaluation Study About The Social Gradient in Health of Older South Australians (293 Kb)

Paul Henman The Poverty of Welfare Reform Discourse (265 Kb)

Boyd Hunter, Steven Kennedy and Daniel Smith Sensitivity of Australian Income Distributions to Choice of Equivalence Scale: Exploring Some Parameters of Indigenous Incomes (237 Kb)

Simon Kelly, Richard Percival and Ann Harding Women and Superannuation in the 21st Century: Poverty or Plenty? (276 Kb)

Pamela Kinnear Mutual Obligation: A Reasonable Policy? (70 Kb)

Carmel Laragy Individualised Funding in Disability Services (67 Kb)

Rachel Lloyd, Ann Harding and Harry Greenwell Worlds Apart: Postcodes with the Highest and Lowest Poverty Rates in Today's Australia (206 Kb)

Greg Marston Fashion, Fiction, Fertile Inquiry? Struggling with the Postmodern Challenge and Social Policy Analysis (200 Kb)

David Martin Reforming the Welfare System in remote Aboriginal Communities: an Assessment of Noel Pearson's Proposals (137 Kb)

Rose Melville Volunteers and Community Legal Centres: A Partnership Under Threat
(187 Kb)
Wayne Vroman and Vera Brusentsev Australian Unemployment Protection: Challenges and New Directions (230 Kb)

Ariadne Vromen Community Activism and Change: the Cases of Sydney and Toronto

Maggie Walters Labour Market Participation and the Married to Sole Mother Transition (56 Kb)

Joceyn Williams Margie Comrey and Frank Sligo Walking The Path With New Parents (76 Kb)

Lou Wilson, Barbara Pocock and Marg Sexton Workplace Change in South Australian Local Government: Doing More with Less(53 Kb)