Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman all lecture in the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wendy Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.
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Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
PART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA
1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy
making
2 Why the historical and current context matters
3 Debates about social goals
4 Organisational maps and policy making
5 Working in organisations
6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets
7 The policy process as power and contest
PART II CASE STUDIES
Introduction
8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR
BOURKE
9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda
WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE
10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria
HURRIYET BABACAN
11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance
economy TONY DALTON
12 Policy and planning in community s
