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First published 2019
Text Peter Saunders, 2019
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Contents
Peter Saunders
Bea Cantillon
Sue Regan and David Stanton
Matthew Gray, Lixia Qu, David Stanton and Ruth Weston
Peter Whiteford
Terry Carney
Greg Marston and Juan Zhang
Francisco Azpitarte and Guyonne Kalb
Peter Saunders and Yuvisthi Naidoo
Judith Yates
Jennifer Mays and Karen R Fisher
Kay Cook
Boyd Hunter and Danielle Venn
Shelley Mallett and Diarmuid Cooney-ODonoghue
John Quiggin
Allan Borowski and Eric Kingson
Troy Henderson
David Ingles, Ben Phillips and Miranda Stewart
Alison McClelland
Contributors
Francisco Azpitarte is Lecturer in Social Policy at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Prior to that position, Francisco held the Ronald Henderson Research fellow position at the University of Melbourne and the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Franciscos research is focused on the analysis of socioeconomic inequality, poverty, and the impact of poverty on child development and the transmission of disadvantage across generations. He has published work in highly regarded international journals including the International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Economic Inequality, and the Review of Income and Wealth.
Allan Borowski is Emeritus Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a part-time lecturer in the School of Social Work, Ariel University, Israel. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His recent publications include Israels Long-Term Care Insurance Law after a Quarter of a Century (Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2015) and (with Karen Teshuva and Yvonne Wells) The Lived Experience of Providing Care and Support Services for Holocaust Survivors in Australia (Qualitative Health Research, 2017).
Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. She has acted as a consultant to, among others, the OECD, the European Commission, and the Belgian government. She is a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy and a member of the Belgian High Council for Employment and of the Commission on Pension Reform. Recent book publications include Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction (with F Vandenbroucke) and Decent Incomes For All (with Tim Goedem and John Hills), both with Oxford University Press.
Terry Carney AO is an Emeritus Professor at Sydney Law School and Visiting Research Professor UTS, Sydney. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and past President of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, he researches on social security and health law. His co-authored and sole-authored books include Australian Mental Health Tribunals: Space for Fairness, Freedom, Protection and Treatment?; Managing Anorexia Nervosa: Clinical, Legal and Social Perspectives On Involuntary Treatment; and Social Security Law and Policy.
Kay Cook is an Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. She founded and directs the International Network of Child Support Scholars alongside Professors Christine Skinner and Daniel Meyer, and edited the Journal of Family Studies until mid-2018. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, exploring the declining uptake and enforcement of child support, internationally. Her research interests include the governance of families, how ideologies inform social policy design and reform, and single parents experiences of welfare and poverty.
Diarmuid Cooney-ODonoghue is a Research Officer at the Brotherhood of St Laurence Research and Policy Centre. His research interests include social security, the labour market and economic security.
Karen R Fisher is Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, the University of New South Wales, where she leads the Disability Research Program. She is co-author of four books on Chinese social policy with a focus on disability and child welfare. Her research interests are the organisation of social services in Australia and China, including disability and mental health community services; inclusive research and evaluation methodology; and social policy process.
Matthew Gray is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University. His research interests include economic and social policy, family studies, social security and tax, and research methods. He has undertaken major evaluations including of the family law system, place based interventions and income management.
Troy Henderson is an economist at the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute. He is completing a PhD on basic income as a policy option for Australia at the University of Sydney. He is co-author with John Quiggin of Trade Unions and Basic Income in The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income and co-author with Ben Spies-Butcher of Stepping Stones to an Australian Basic Income in Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward.
Boyd Hunter is Senior Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University. He is President of the Australian Society of Labour Economics. Boyd has been the Managing Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics and Australian Journal of Social Issues. His main areas of research and teaching involve the economic history of The Indigenous Economy and the implications for contemporaneous social and economic policy. He is a contributor to
