Markets, rights and power in Australian social policy

• Main Author: Meagher, Gabrielle (auth)
• Other Authors: Goodwin, Susan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Sydney University Press 2015
• Series: Public and Social Policy
• Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The provision of social services in Australia has changed dramatically in recent decades. Governments have expanded social provision without expanding the public sector by directly subsidising private provision, by contracting private agencies, both non-profit and for-profit, to deliver services, an...