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Ben Spies-Butcher Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation, Anthem Press, London 2024, pp. 218, A$174.32 (hardback).

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Ben Spies-Butcher Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation, Anthem Press, London 2024, pp. 218, A$174.32 (hardback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2025

Michael Thrower*
Affiliation:
The University of Sydney Faculty of Economics and Business, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The University of New South Wales

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