Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Tables; Introduction; 1 Activism and the policy process; 2 Policy from the margins: reshaping the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; 3 Development of professional competencies-a case study in the complexities of corporatist policy implementation; 4 Children's services and policy activism; 5 The art of insider activism: policy activism and the governance of health; 6 Community activism in the health policy process: the case of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, 1987-96
7 Discourse analysis and policy activism: readings and rewritings of Australian university research policy8 Pink conspiracies: Australia's gay communities and national HIVIAIDS policies, 1983-96; 9 Policy activism, community housing and urban renewal: Bowden-Brompton 1972-96; 10 Activists in the woodwork: policy activism and the housing reform movement in New South Wales; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
An innovative approach to a rarely-examined aspect of politics and public policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index
