AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES The AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES is published by the Australian Social Policy Association to provide an inter-disciplinary forum for debate on significant social policy issues. It deals with questions of social justice and social policy. Articles discuss particular social issues, review conceptual problems, present empirical studies and debate policy alternatives. The journal is editorially independent of the Association and the universities to which editors and contributors are affiliated. VOLUME 50 NUMBER 2 2015 VOLUME 50 NUMBER 2 2015 Social inclusion in Australia what has it achieved? The social inclusion policy agenda in Australia: a case of old wine, new bottles? Social inclusion, exclusion, and well-being in Australia: meaning and measurement Social inclusion under Labor in South Australia Policy approaches to addressing Aboriginal social inclusion in South Australia Disability policy in Australia: a triumph of the scriptio inferior on impotence and neediness? Redmond Marston and Dee Saunders Wilson and Spoehr Robbins Hallahan
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VOLUME 50 NUMBER 2 2015 Social inclusion in Australia what has it achieved? The social inclusion policy agenda in Australia: a case of old wine, new bottles? Social inclusion, exclusion, and well being in Australia: meaning and measurement Social inclusion under Labor in South Australia Policy approaches to addressing Aboriginal social inclusion in South Australia Gerry Redmond 115-117 Greg Marston and Mike Dee 119-138 Peter Saunders 139-158 Lou Wilson and John Spoehr 159-170 Jane Robbins 171-189 Disability policy in Australia: a triumph of the scriptio inferior on impotence and neediness? Lorna Hallahan 191-208 Information about authors 209-210 Notes for contributors 211-214 113
Information about authors Mike Dee was a youth worker in Kings Cross and Earls Court, London, in 1976 and has more than twenty years direct experience working with children, young people, families and communities. At QUT Mike completed his PhD in 2008 on the topic of Young People, Public Space and Citizenship. His research interests include the study of citizenship, the welfare state, social determinants of health, CCTV and other forms of surveillance, urban public space, and children and young people s rights. Lorna Hallahan is Associate Professor, Head of Discipline Social Work, and Chair, Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee at Flinders University. She was Deputy Chair of the National People with Disability and Carers Council from 2008 13 and member of the National NDIS Advisory Committee from 2010 13. Lorna is a Chief Investigator on the Evaluation of the NDIS. As a member of the SA Social Inclusion Board she guided the development of Strong Voices, a Blueprint for Disability Policy (2011). Greg Marston is Professor of Social Policy in the School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT. His research interests focus on welfare state restructuring, poverty, and social policy governance. His latest book with Catherine McDonald and Lois Bryson is The Australian Welfare State: Who Benefits Now? Palgrave Macmillan, Melbourne. Gerry Redmond is Associate Professor at the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide. His research interests encompass child development, child poverty and deprivation, inequalities between children, and how these evolve through time. He is currently leading a national study of child wellbeing (the Australian Child Wellbeing Project) that is using child centred techniques to measure differences and inequalities in wellbeing among Australian children in their middle years. Jane Robbins is Associate Professor in the Discipline of Politics and Policy Studies in the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University. She teaches social policy and Indigenous policy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Peter Saunders was the Director of the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales between February 1987 and July 2007, and now holds a Research Chair in Social Policy within the Centre. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1995, was President 209
Information about authors of the Australian Social Policy Association between 2009 and 2012 and is currently President of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS). John Spoehr is the Executive Director of the Australian Workplace Innovation and Social Research Centre, The University of Adelaide where he is an Associate Professor. He is the editor of State of South Australia, now in its third edition and has published widely on politics and economics in Australia. His current research focuses on the impact of the closure of the Australian automobile manufacturing industry with a significant focus on industrial rejuvenation and urban regeneration strategies Lou Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He maintains research interests in social inclusion and cohesion, social capital, and social, economic and environmental sustainability. He has recently published research on Urban Consolidation and the Health of Australian Children. He currently teaches courses in planning research study and social planning, with teaching interests in social policy, politics and sociology, survey design, and focus group methods. 210 Australian Journal of Social Issues Vol.50 No.2, 2015