- Title
- A 'program of such potential' : The Australian Assistance Plan
- Creator
- Scott, Joanne; Oppenheimer, Melanie; Eklund, Erik
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Book chapter; Text
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164449
- Identifier
- vital:13072
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781787071032
- Abstract
- The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative programme of social welfare reform. Foreshadowed in the late 1960s, launched in 1973, and abolished in 1977, it was the subject of substantial commentary during and immediately after its brief existence. Attracting more brickbats than bouquets, the AAP was variously described as ‘a feasible and indeed exciting approach’, ‘the most random of random experiments’, ‘welfare on the cheap’, ‘a confusing program’ and ‘good news’.2 In contrast to other major initiatives of the Whitlam Labor government, it has attracted almost no scholarly analysis since the 1970s.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Ltd
- Relation
- The state of welfare : comparative studies of the welfare state at the end of the long boom, 1965-1980 Chapter 5 p. 85-104
- Rights
- Copyright © Peter Lang AG 2018
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Welfare reform; Australian Assistance Plan (AAP)
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