- Title
- “Developing a community soul” : A comparative assessment of the Australian assistance plan in three regions, 1973-1977
- Creator
- Eklund, Erik; Oppenheimer, Melanie; Scott, Joanne
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/160594
- Identifier
- vital:12211
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12271
- Identifier
- ISBN:0004-9522
- Abstract
- The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative yet largely forgotten social welfare program from the 1970s. A key platform of the Whitlam Labor government, which established a series of Regional Councils for Social Development across Australia, the AAP reframed citizens’ participation in their communities, stimulated voluntary organisations and volunteering and attempted to transform engagement among all levels of governments and the voluntary sector. Through an analysis of three Regional Council case studies in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, this article focuses on the themes of regionalism and regional distinctiveness in order to assess how questions of regional difference can impact on the development of policy practices. © 2016 The Authors.
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 62, no. 3 (2016), p. 419-434
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Australian Journal of Politics and History © 2016 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1605 Policy and Administration; 1606 Political Science; 2103 Historical Studies; Australian assistance plan (AAP); Social welfare; Whitlam Labor government; Regional councils for social development
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