Brotherhood Comment April 2004

ISSN 1320 8632A REGULAR UPDATE FROM SOCIAL ACTION AND RESEARCHApril 2004Making this a social policy electionWe devote this issue of Brotherhood Second, a new social would potential both individually and Comment to the 2004 federal end the politics of denial currently socially. We also seek to highlight election because we believe it will surrounding poverty in Australia the lived experience of exclusion be of vital import for social policy and commit to creating an inclusive which we encounter daily at the in this country. A two-decade Australia free of poverty. Economic Brotherhood, in an effort to end the subordination of social policy globalisation may have brought public silence which has descended In February, to ‘the economy’ appears to be wealth to the fortunate ‘global upon the private pain of their a Roy Morgan ending. As yet the ‘social futures’ classes’, but for others it has been fellow Australians. research poll our political parties have in mind more like dispossession. Rather for the National remain unclear. The Brotherhood than drifting towards a privatised The third element of our proposed Welfare Rights Network found believes a new social policy ‘little America’ with luxury services social policy architecture would that 88 per cent architecture is urgently required for the rich in gated communities be new technologies of democratic of respondents to match an already restructured and punitive, residualised welfare governance. Among the ...