| Description |
xxiv, 352 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1. Fundamental issues in social security -- 2. The history and values of Australian social security -- 3. The definition and scale of poverty -- 4. Meeting poverty: some policy choices -- 5. Towards a citizenship rationale -- 6. Equity and priorities - the treatment of income and assets -- 7. Income support for the unemployed -- 8. Income support for the disabled -- 9. Income support for sole-parent families -- 10. Towards citizenship or conservatism? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Tables |
| Analysis |
Australia |
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Welfare benefits Policies Of Government History |
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Asset tests |
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Cases (Law) |
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Citizenship |
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Equity |
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Federal issue |
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History |
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Income support |
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Invalid pensions |
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Key item |
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Poverty |
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Single parents |
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Social values |
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Statistics |
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Unemployment benefits |
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Welfare measures |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Rev. and expanded ed. of: Australian social security law, policy and administration / Terry Carney & Peter Hanks. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 330-345 |
| Notes |
Also available electronically |
| Subject |
Public welfare administration -- Australia.
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Social security -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Social security -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Social security -- Australia.
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Social security.
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| Author |
Carney, Terry, 1945-
Australian social security law, policy and administration
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Hanks, Peter, 1941-
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| LC no. |
94149571 |
| ISBN |
0195535626 |
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