SHAVER, Sheila <br/><br/>
Australian welfare reform :  from citizenship to supervision 

 -  2002 
<br/><br/> This paper examines the implications of welfare reform for the meaning of social citizenship in Australia. Australian welfare reform has been under way since the late 1980s, and reflects the themes of activity and participation that are shaping social policy in many advanced industrial nations. The paper suggest that Australian welfare reform is follwing a liberal trajectory of change which places a continuing emphasis on market and family as the preferred institutions for social support wich a newly salient appeal to moral ideas about the responsibility of citizens to be self-sustaining. The paper argues that welfare is being transformed from a limited social right to support provided on condition, and from breating the claimant as a sovereign individual to a subject of partenalistic supervision. Together, these changes are redefining the meaning of equality in Australian social citizenship 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Welfare Reform<br/>Social Citizenship<br/>Equality
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Australia