The Australian Welfare State and the Neoliberalism Thesis

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The Australian Welfare State and the Neoliberalism Thesis

This paper uses Australian Bureau of Statistics fiscal incidence figures to track trends in the Australian welfare state across the period 1984 to 2004. Its general aim is to assess the proposition that recent governments have been ‘grave-diggers’ of the welfare state in Australia. More specifically...

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Main Authors:	Fenna, Alan, Tapper, Alan
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group 2012
Subjects:	Taxation Social Policy Fiscal Policy Neoliberalism Redistribution Welfare State Inequality Fiscal Incidence
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27191

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