Changing needs of the Australian community
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Date
1981-08
Authors
Graycar, Adam
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Copyright University of New South Wales
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University of New South Wales
Abstract
In Australia, as in other industrial nations, expenditure on social policy items consumes the largest single item of public expenditure. This has led to intense political debate about whether we can continue to afford these expenditures. On the one hand there are those who maintain that we cannot continue to spend the amounts that we do on social well being; and on the other is the view that we cannot afford not to spend as much, or more, than we presently do.
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Speech presented at the St. Vincent De Paul Centenary, 1 August 1981 by Adam Graycar, Social Welfare Research Centre, University of New South Wales. This speech is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords
Social welfare system, Social security pensions, Welfare, Social policy, Poverty