For nearly 12 years from 1996, the Australian government pursued a neoliberal industrial
relations agenda, seeking to break with structures based on collective bargaining and trade …

This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people's own stories, to document
how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia …

This article reviews developments in digital self‐servicing in Australian employment
services. The article draws on program implementation documentation to describe recent …

The concept of food security is often anchored in popular understandings of the challenge to
produce and supply enough food. However, decades of policies for intensive agriculture …

Recent changes to Australia's welfare system have affected low-income single parent
families, with many moved on to an employment seeker's payment (a reduced payment) …

Income maintenance during unemployment, old age or long-term sickness is a key facet of
welfare provision and an important mediatory factor in the relationship between socio …

In this article I argue that the spaces of freedom and constraint that personalized planning
programs targeted at Australian single parents open up and close down are distinctly …

A ustralia and N ew Z ealand developed distinctive 'wage‐earner welfare states', with social
protection largely delivered through high breadwinner basic incomes and residual social …

This article charts the development of welfare‐to‐work policies and compares and contrasts
the traditions of delivery in the UK and Australia. We find that in the UK, employment …

Outcomes of social policies have always been mediated by the discretionary agency of front‐
line staff, processes which nevertheless have received insufficient attention in policy …