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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 16, 2009
Community Development Journal 2009 44(2):268-270; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp010
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Australia's Welfare Wars Revisited: The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies

Martin Mowbray

Emeritus Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne

email: martin.mowbray@rmit.edu.au

Philip Mendes, 2008, ISBN 9780868409917, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia, AUD $44.93.

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Publishers tend to overstate the merit of their books. But the website promotional blurb for Australia's Welfare Wars' is very fair, announcing it as

a substantial revision' of the author's successful (2003) textbook Australia's Welfare Wars, in which the author explains – and questions – many of the values and assumptions that underpin contemporary social welfare policies. In particular, the book is critical of the Neo-liberal or Economic rationalist ideas that now dominate the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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