title: Social Policy in Australia: Understanding for Action
author: Alison McClelland
description: <br /><strong>Alison McClelland</strong> is Executive Director of Strategic Policy, Research and Forecasting in the Department of Planning and Community Development at the University of Melbourne in Australia. <br /><br /><strong>Paul Smyth</strong> is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne, and General Manager of the Research and Policy Centre of the Brotherhood of St Laurence.<br />
zlib_text: Australian Politics
  and Policy
  Senior Edition
  
  Australian Politics
  and Policy
  Senior Edition
  Edited by Peter J. Chen, Nicholas Barry, John R. Butcher,
  David Clune, Ian Cook, Adele Garnier, Yvonne Haigh, Sara C.
  Motta and Marija Taflaga
  
  First published 2019 by Sydney University Press
  This is version 1.1
  © Individual authors 2019
  © Sydney University Press 2019
  Sydney University Press
  Fisher Library F03
  University of Sydney NSW 2006
  AUSTRALIA
  sup.info@sydney.edu.au
  sydneyuniversitypress.com.au
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International
  License. A copy of this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
  A catalogue record for this book is available
  from the National Library of Australia.
  ISBN 9781743326671 pdf
  ISBN 9781743326688 epub
  ISBN 9781743326800 paperback
  Cover design by Miguel Yamin.
  A project of the Australian Political Studies Association
  
  Contents
  viii
  Acknowledgments
    1
  Introduction
  