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Redefining Welfare: Australian Social Policy and Practice
Lesley Chenoweth 한국사회복지학회 2008 Asian Social Work and Policy Review Vol.2 No.1
The present paper outlines and analyzes Australia’s welfare reform policies as they have beenimplemented over the past decade. While there have been numerous social policy initiatives overthis period, welfare reform provides an interesting site for analysis and review. This suite of policiesand programs is of particular importance from several standpoints. First, its target groups – thoseneeding income security assistance, including the unemployed, people with disabilities, and singleparents – are historically and traditionally of concern to social work and social welfare. Second,welfare reform policies have had significant impact on social welfare agencies, and the social workersand welfare workers employed in them. Finally, welfare reform has had a wider impact oninequality in Australia and our attitudes to those in need. This paper first provides a brief overviewof the context of Australian social policy and welfare, its origins and current situation. It then outlinesthe key operational elements of welfare reform and how it has been implemented. The thirdsection of the paper offers a critical analysis of these policies and programs and finally poses somequestions and issues requiring further discussion and research.