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Interest in the subject of privatisation in Australia has increased markedly over recent years, although references to it have been made in the literature intermittently over a longer period. The original purpose of this bibliography was to record items dealing with the privatisation of welfare services. However, as work on collecting material for the entries proceeded, it became obvious that it is extremely difficult to separate privatisation of welfare services from the effects on welfare of the privatisation of enterprises not directly concerned with those services. Privatisation of enterprises such as the water supply and communication services, has direct or indirect effects on the well-being of the population. It introduces the question of 'community service obligations' (CSOs), or the non-commercial objectives of government business organisations, which are often lost when these organisations are privatised. This bibliography has therefore widened its scope to include works which refer to the effects on the well-being of the population of the privatisation of enterprises not directly in the welfare area. Another issue which has affected the choice of entries has been that of what constitutes privatisation. A number of works cited here are concerned with definition and with detailing the nature of the changes which are entailed in different forms of privatisation: deregulation, the introduction of user-pays practices, asset sales etc. Among these may be included an expanded role for the voluntary or non-profit sector in the provision of community and welfare services. These entries are found under the keyword 'Forms'.

This report is the third to appear in the Social Welfare Research Centre's Research Resource Series. It is an annotated bibliography of material published in Australia which relates to poverty and certain aspects of inequality. Concern about poverty in Australia has been increasing since the time of the earliest entries here which cite works published in the early 1960s. That concern has been reflected in the enquiries and reviews established by governments (notably the Poverty Inquiry in 1972 and the Social Security Review in 1986) and in the amount of research undertaken and the number of conferences which have been organised around the theme of poverty in recent years. Research into the economic and social aspects of poverty, including its measurement, causes and consequences is a major focus of the current research agenda of the Centre. So too, is the assessment of government policy in this area and the consideration and analysis of alternative policies. This bibliography draws together the material which has been published in this key area of social policy and should be a useful resource for those whose work continues to focus on the subject.

This is the second annotated bibliography about unemployment in Australia to be published by the Social Welfare Research Centre. The first appeared in 1984 and contained citations from the period 1978 to 1983. The compilation included only works actually sighted by us; inevitably not all published works were available at the time. This volume therefore overlaps with the previous one and covers the period 1980 to 1985. The search has been undertaken over a longer period and has been more thorough. Nevertheless, once again, some works have not been available to us and we regret their omission. The collection is drawn from a variety of academic disciplines - economics, psychology, education, sociology, criminology, law, social work, geography, engineering, public administration and industrial relations - and from a range of areas of activity such as universities and other research or educational institutions, government departments and agencies, the women's movement, trade unions, welfare and community service organisations, the church and private medical practice. The cross-reference system in this volume includes the entries in the earlier Compilation; ENCEL, Diana and GARDE, Pauline (1984), Unemployment in Australia: An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-83, SWRC Reports and Proceedings No.36.

This report contains the five Invited Plenary Session papers presented to the Second National Social Policy Conference held at the University of New South Wales on 3-5 July 1991. The theme of the Conference, Social Policy in Australia: Options for the 1990s forms the title of the report. The Social Policy Research Centre is also publishing two volumes of selected contributed papers in the SPRC Reports and Proceedings series as well as editing a Special Issue of The Australian Quarterly (No. 3, 1991) containing a further selection of contributed papers. This volume is concerned with a range of issues of importance to social policy, both theoretical and practical, demonstrating the links between the two. Geoff Dow discusses the nature of social democracy; Trevor Hogan examines notions of social policy and citizenship through the works of two British intellectuals; two papers discuss social justice (Bill Hampel with reference to the teaching of English as a second language and Frances Press with reference to children's services); two papers are concerned with discrimination (V. Dharmananda and, J. Williams in connection with age while Kerry Carrington examines the operation of racism in a town with an Aboriginal population); two papers look at the process of policy formation (Miriam Solomon in the field of mental health and Michael Steer with regard to people with disabilities). The remaining papers deal with specific programs: Aboriginal community enterprises (W.S. Arthur); respite care (F. Ehrlich et al.); the HACC program (Jane Halton); policies for homeless youth (M.J. Liddell and CR. Goddard); and training for non-government sector workers (Julie Nyland).

This report contains the five Invited Plenary Session papers presented to the Second National Social Policy Conference held at the University of New South Wales on 3-5 July 1991. The theme of the Conference, Social Policy in Australia: Options for the 1990s forms the title of the report. The Social Policy Research Centre is also publishing two volumes of selected contributed papers in the SPRC Reports and Proceedings series as well as editing a Special Issue of The Australian Quarterly (No. 3, 1991) containing a further selection of contributed papers. This volume is concerned with a range of issues relating to the social security system, including income distribution, and with changes in this distribution and in the need for, and ways of, providing income support, brought about by changes in demography and in government policy.

This bibliography is compiled from the references consulted and collected in the course of work which resulted in publications in the Reports and Proceedings of the Social Welfare Research Centre by the team working on unemployment issues. This is a compilation of Australian material. A few items of a very general nature which are not Australian have been included, but no attempt has been made to present a representative collection of non-Australian citations. The works cited have been published in the period 1978-1983 with only one or two exceptions. One criterion for inclusion is accessibility of the material, although newspaper articles are not cited. The items included are whole books, chapters of books, journal articles, pamphlets, even posters. No attempt has been made to cite unpublished material (theses, submissions, unpublished conference papers for instance) even when we know that they make contributions to the subject. Unemployment is the central issue of the bibliography, but the field is wide. The collection began from an interest in social welfare but is drawn from a variety of academic disciplines including economics, psychology, sociology, law, social work, geography, engineering and from a number of areas of activity such as universities, government departments and agencies, the women's movement and a variety of welfare and community service organisations. Inclusion has been on an impartial basis; the material has not been 'selected' and presents varying perspectives.

This report extends our earlier work by looking at the relationship between poverty and the workforce. It utilises data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the unit records from the 1981-82 Income and Housing Survey. Although the position of the labour market has deteriorated considerably since then, the report brings together an extensive analysis of these data and discusses the implications of subsequent labour market developments. The report thus draws together work on poverty and the broader question of the social welfare implications of labour market changes. The recognition that the alleviation of poverty can only come about in a sustainable way through wider access to employment opportunities has been long-standing in Australia. The Commission of Inquiry into Poverty noted in its first Main Report released in 1975 that 'the dominant factor which determines poverty is whether or not the head of the income unit is able to work' (p.16). The current report emphasises the relevance of this observation to the situation prevailing a decade after the work of the Poverty Commission. The need to recognise the central role of employment and labour market policies aimed at maintaining high employment levels is as pressing now as it ever was. Full employment must be seen as a major objective of both economic and social policy. Fresh emphasis to these concerns has been given by recent government policy initiatives aimed at developing a more effective integration of income support and labour market policies. The need to continue on this path has been reinforced in the recently released Social Security Review Issues Paper, Income Support for the Unemployed in Australia: Towards a More Active System. Although this report was prepared prior to the Social Security Review's paper, I hope that it will contribute to the debate which promises to have a major bearing on the development of income support and labour market policies appropriate for Australia in the 1990s and beyond.