The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services

by Mark Considine

The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries has revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred framework for social service policy provision, since the 1980s, can now be seen conclusively to have failed. Weak quality control, systematic rorting, and entrenched disadvantage have become the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522879012
• ISBN13: 9780522879018
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"