Critically analyze key changes to a social policy (eg Education, health, housing, income support) during and after the Howard government.

Must use this book for references:
Carson, E. and Kerr, L 2013, Australian social policy and the human services, 1st edn, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.

Additional references:

THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL TEXTS WILL ALSO BE OF USE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. They provide discussions of social policies with an Australian or South Australian focus

Jamrozik, A., (2009) Social Policy in the Post-Welfare State, Pearson.
McClelland, A., and Smyth, P., (2010) Social Policy in Australia: Understanding for Action, 2nded, Oxford.

Fawcett, B., Goodwin, S., Meagher, G., Phillips, R. (2010) Social Policy for Social Change, Palgrave, Macmillan,

Mendes, P (2008) Australian welfare wars revisited: the player, the politics and the ideologies, UNSW Press, Australia.

Bessant, J., Watts, R., Dalton, T and Smyth, P. (2006), Talking Policy: How Social Policy is Made, Allen &Unwin, Sydney.

Spoehr, J. (Ed) 2005, State of South Australia: Trends and Issues, Wakefield Press, Adelaide.

Fenna, A 2004, Australian public policy, 2nd ed, Pearson Longman, Melbourne.

Althaus, C., Bridgeman, P., Davis, G., 2013, The Australian Policy Handbook, (5th edition), Allen and Unwin, NSW.

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