SCPL2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Underemployment, Child Care, Social Order
17 May 2018
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Week 1: AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL POLICY:
• Social policy is about the social and economic arrangements of everyday life, a discipline and
regulation of socio and economic relationships.
• Social Policy and Public Debate:
o Housing Affordability:
• Graton Institute: Report confirms that younger people are being locked out of the
housing market.
• Decline as generations are getting older.
• Raises the issue of migration.
• Mass government investment in housing has declined, increasingly houses are
being sold off.
• Issues of housing for ATSI people
• Northern Territory - housing plan, extend housing space for ATSI people by
installing sheds, not useful though
• Who gets access to what quality of housing?
o 40 years of Mardi Gras
• Fuelled by same principles of other social principles
• Liberalism --> right to be treated equally
o Underemployment
• Increasing media focus
• Unemployment or Underemployment?
• Unemployment - terms of whether you work for 1 hour or more a week
• Underemployment - Indicator of labour market, refers to people in paid work,
work less than full time people, but are available to work full time hours.
o Unpaid work and Care
• Women and Men Domestic duties - unbalanced duties
• Women - 15-16 hours of work
• Men - 5 hours of work
• Men's child care work - leisure
• Women's Child care work - Necessary care
• Mens leave loaded in summer months whilst women leave is loaded in winter
• Gender distribution of care
• Key Issues and Questions
o The arrangement of social and economic relationships and how sustainable they are
o They interactions between social security and employment
o Who has a right to a minimum standard of living and under what circumstances?
o What questions and principles fuel debate:
• Is it all about what we can afford, (and what does that even mean?)
• Social order, the needs of the market, individual choice and accountability,
different ideas of social justice
• Policy Briefs: What are they?
o A policy brief offers a concise and accurate summary of information that assists others
to understand a policy field/problem and make decisions about it. Policy briefs may be
objective summaries of research, they might offer arguments for and against a specific
change, they might suggest policy options or they might offer a clear argument for a
particular change.
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Document Summary
Social policy is about the social and economic arrangements of everyday life, a discipline and regulation of socio and economic relationships. Issues of housing for atsi people: northern territory - housing plan, extend housing space for atsi people by installing sheds, not useful though, who gets access to what quality of housing, 40 years of mardi gras. Fuelled by same principles of other social principles. Liberalism --> right to be treated equally: underemployment. Is it all about what we can afford, (and what does that even mean?)
