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Australian public policy: Progressive ideas in the neo-liberal ascendency

Chris Miller and Lionel Orchard

Abstract

At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming them. It brings together leading authors to explore economic, environmental, social, cultural, political and Indigenous issues. It examines trends and current policy directions and outlines progressive alternatives that challenge and extend current thinking. While focused on Australia, the contributors offer valuable insights for people in ... More

Keywords: public policy, neoliberalism, social democracy, public value, Australia

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN-13: 9781447312673
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2015 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447312673.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Chris Miller, editor
Flinders University, Austalia

Lionel Orchard, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures and tables

Contributor biographies

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Part One Setting the Scene

One Towards a new progressive policy agenda

Chris Miller and Lionel Orchard

Two Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy

Mark Davis

Part Two Economics, Welfare and Work

Three Macroeconomic policy after the Global Financial Crisis

John Quiggin

Four Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?

Barbara Pocock, Janine Chapman and Natalie Skinner

Five Welfare reform

Ben Spies-Butcher

Six ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy

John Buchanan and Damian Oliver

Part Three Culture and Society

Seven Indigenous policy: Canberra consensus on a neoliberal project of improvement

Jon Altman

Eight Culture and diversity

George Crowder

Nine The business of care: Australia’s experiment with the marketisation of childcare

Deborah Brennan1

Ten Mixed messages in the new politics of education

Louise Watson and Charlotte Liu

Eleven The accidental logic of health policy in Australia

Fran Baum and Judith Dwyer

Twelve Loose moorings: debate and directions in Australian housing policy

Lionel Orchard

Part Four Environment, Population and Cities

Thirteen Population policy

Ian Lowe

Fourteen Australian cities: in pursuit of a national urban policy

Paul Burton and Jago Dodson

Fifteen Natural resource management: steering not rowing against the current in the Murray-Darling Basin

Daniel Connell

Sixteen International perspectives: low carbon urban Australia in a time of transition

Ralph Horne and Colin Fudge

Part Five Politics and Government

Seventeen Politics and government

James Walter and Zareh Ghazarian

Eighteen Federalism and intergovernmental relations

Robyn Hollander

Nineteen Citizen engagement in Australian policy making

Chris Miller

Twenty On escaping neoliberalism: concluding reflections

Chris Miller and Lionel Orchard

End Matter

Index