Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables

pp v-vi

Contributor biographies

pp vii-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

Foreword

pp xvii-xx

Part One - Setting the scene

pp 1-2

one - Towards a new progressive policy agenda

pp 3-26

two - Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy

pp 27-42

Part Two - Economics, welfare and work

pp 43-44

three - Macroeconomic policy after the Global Financial Crisis

pp 45-62

four - Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?

pp 63-80

five - Welfare reform

pp 81-96

six - ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy

pp 97-112

Part Three - Culture and society

pp 113-114

seven - Indigenous policy: Canberra consensus on a neoliberal project of improvement

pp 115-132

eight - Culture and diversity

pp 133-150

nine - The business of care: Australia’s experiment with the marketisation of childcare

pp 151-168

ten - Mixed messages in the new politics of education

pp 169-186

eleven - The accidental logic of health policy in Australia

pp 187-208

twelve - Loose moorings: debate and directions in Australian housing policy

pp 209-226

Part Four - Environment, population and cities

pp 227-228

thirteen - Population policy

pp 229-244

fourteen - Australian cities: in pursuit of a national urban policy

pp 245-262

fifteen - Natural resource management: steering not rowing against the current in the Murray-Darling Basin

pp 263-278

sixteen - International perspectives: low carbon urban Australia in a time of transition

pp 279-296

Part Five - Politics and government

pp 297-298

seventeen - Politics and government

pp 299-314

eighteen - Federalism and intergovernmental relations

pp 315-332

nineteen - Citizen engagement in Australian policy making

pp 333-350