Description

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In this fully revised third edition of Australia’s Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.

About the Author

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Philip Mendes is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research unit in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University. He has been a social work and social policy practitioner and educator for 30 years, with particular experience in the fields of income security, young people leaving out-of-home care, social workers and policy practice, and illicit drugs.