SCPL2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Australia Policy, New Social Movements, Social Liberalism
17 May 2018
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Week 4: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT
• Challenging Exclusion: 1970s
o Welfare expansion
o Challenge to the male bread winner model
• End of the 'family wage', Sex Discrimination Act, No fault divorce, Sole Parent
Pension
o Introduction/Expansion of Universalism:
• Medibank, Free higher education, Pension for those over 70
o Unraveling of the White Australia Policy:
• A process begun in the 1960s and effectively ended by Fraser government
o Responding to 'new' needs:
▪ New Social Movements (e.g. Indigenous Rights Movements, feminist
movement, environmental movement)
o Social Democracy (embedding social rights)
• Hawke and Keating: The Social Wage and Social Liberalism?
o Social Wage and the Accord:
• Wages and Productivity
• Medicare
• Further erosion of the male breadwinner model
• Gradual Reduced tariff and subsidies (trade liberalization)
o Economic Rationalism that was 'softened' by a continuing commitment to social
protection
• Mix of work and welfare as protection against poverty
• Reintegration of economic and social policy
• Post 1996: Social policy and the Welfare State in the 21st Century?
o 'Contracting Out' and privatisation
• Rejection of some 'community organisations' as 'legitimate' participants in policy
processes (feminist, indigenous organisations) - seeing this extended with
expressed concerns about charities and advocacy
• Market facilitation
• Some re-assertion of the male beadwinner model
o Workfare and Paternalism:
• Mutual obligation (rights to obligations)
• Work for the dole
o Final dismantling of the wage earners welfare state
• Income support and Industrial Relations
• Social Policy and Ideology:
o Neo - liberalism:
• Individual (rather than collective) responsibility for social/individual risk
• Shift from Rights to responsibilities/obligations (although this applies only to
some)
• Shift from the state to market (as the best place for fulfilling needs and insuring
against risk)
o 'New Paternalism'
• Building moral character
• Enforcing obligations
o Governing of 'conduct' through income support and welfare measures
• Neo Liberalism: States, Markets and Individuals:
o Goerets’ role is ot to iteree ut to failitate the orkigs of the arket plae
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