Over the last three decades, social security reform in Australia has increasingly moved to a
model of welfare conditionality. A neoliberal agenda has led to Australian social security …

Neoliberal reforms and ring-wing ideologies have seen the ideal of the social security 'safety
net'take a hammering in the UK, USA and Australia. While the gap between rich and poor …

In this chapter I use sole parents in Australia as a focus to examine what it would mean to
take a gendered, human rights approach to interpreting the international law right to social …

This reflection considers the slow progress towards domestic recognition of social and
economic rights in Australian law and the notable gaps that remain. It focuses on the lack of …

In Australia, as in other jurisdictions, child support has become a political hot topic, and one
with the potential to deepen and challenge socio-legal understandings of masculinity …

Recent neoliberal reforms to Australian social security and labour law privilege individual
industrial bargaining and adopt a 'job-first'policy for welfare recipients, which exposes them …

This article demonstrates how legal categories often create'silos' that make it difficult to
understand important legal issues that operate across more than one legal doctrine. By …

Introduction: This article explores contemporary Scottish child welfare policy and locates it in
a neoliberal context. The existing national practice model known by the acronym GIRFEC …

This paper uses ideas drawn from Wendy Brown's critique of neoliberal approaches to
governance, to argue that the 'economisation'of social policy such as welfare and legal aid …

Throughout the past 25 years, Australian governments have developed increasingly punitive
and coercive approaches to welfare policy. Punitive welfare policy, underpinned by …