Making Progress
How Good Policy Happens
$32.00
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2025
Summary
Learn about transformational reforms like paid parental leave, the NDIS, the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and revolutionising pensions from Labor’s Jenny Macklin, with insights from Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut, Bill Kelty, Brian Howe, and Tanya Plibersek.
Is big policy reform still possible? Does Australia have the political will to tackle generational issues such as climate change, the housing crisis, rising inequality and Closing the Gap?
Legendary Labor policymaker Je…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522866872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522866875 |
| Author: | Jenny Macklin, Joel Deane |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Jenny Macklin
Jenny Macklin is former deputy leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, the first woman elected to a leadership position in a major Australian political party. In the Rudd-Gillard governments, she was minister for disability reform, families, housing, community services. As minister for Indigenous affairs, she oversaw the Apology to the Stolen Generations and developed the Closing the Gap framework. She established Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme, reformed the pension, led the design and implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and helped establish the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She served as member for Jagajaga for twenty-three years.
Joel Deane is a poet, novelist, journalist and speechwriter. He has published eight books and been a finalist in numerous literary awards, including the Walkley Book Award, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature.
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