An Unlikely Survival
The Politics of Welfare in Australian Since 1950
$48.00
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2024
Summary
An Unlikely Survival: Exploring over 75 Years of Australian Welfare Policy
An Unlikely Survival delves into three-quarters of a century of Australian welfare politics, examining the contests over political principles and the very definition of the common good. As both the economy and society underwent profound transformations, the necessity of government assistance, coupled with the burgeoning advocacy of civil society, became central to political discourse.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522880458 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522880452 |
| Author: | John Murphy |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
John Murphy
John Murphy is an emeritus professor in politics at the University of Melbourne. For almost forty years he has taught generations of students about Australian history, politics and social welfare. He has published widely on Australian political history, including on the Vietnam war, the politics of the 1950s, and Australian welfare policy up to 1949. His biography of the Labor leader Bert Evatt was shortlisted in 2017 for the Prime Minister’s prize for Australian history, and the National Biography Award. In 2011, Half a Citizen, his book based on interviews with welfare recipients and co-written with Suellen Murray, Jenny Chalmers, Sonia Martin and Greg Marston, won the Australian Human Rights Commission Award for non-fiction. His most recent book, with Andrew Rosser, was about social welfare policies in Southeast Asia.
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