AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL POLICIES

The way social policy debates the 21st century restructure of the Australian welfare state may affect indigenous population

Table of Contents

Introduction2

Discussion2

Population group with reference to Demographics:4

Population group with reference to Social Factors:8

Conclusion10

References11

The way social policy debates the 21st century restructure of the Australian welfare state may affect indigenous population

Introduction

The concept of welfare state took in its first meaning and simplified means supported by the state task coverage. This vision is at once too broad and too narrow. Too narrow because the tasks by which the State is responsible for the well being of its citizens cannot be reduced only to social protection mechanisms. It is too large when we see that the state rarely takes single majority support all the tasks of social protection. We distinguish three main spheres effect which organizes social solidarity: the family sphere and private sphere of the market and professional solidarity and the sphere of public intervention. The role of strict state is basically quite limited and yet it penetrates far the other two spheres by the rights and obligations that are introduced (Beilharz & Considine, 1992). This paper discusses Australian welfare state's policy affects on aboriginal people.

Discussion

The Australian concept of "welfare state" is from this point of view the most fruitful. More recently, it refers to the function assigned to the state to help ensure the well-being of individuals, which can be achieved through direct and indirect actions. Hence it clearly indicates the passage of solidarity subjective (private charity in my heart and soul) to a solidarity based on objective rights. Citizens (or residents) beneficiaries are: when the primary solidarities are defective, they can count on the intervention of public power as emanation of national solidarity.

It can be considered as the heart of the idea of ??the welfare state is the notion of "social citizenship" as proposed by TH Marshall in 1949. He argues that we must distinguish three levels of citizenship (civil, political and social) and the full exercise of citizenship is made only where there has made a real social citizenship. Gosta Esping-Andersen, author of the contemporary welfare state typology currently the most famous highlights the importance of this concept Marshall stating that it must support the three following dimensions:

Social citizenship requires the granting of social rights and to specify where these rights come from: the participation in production at one pole or the participation in the political city to another pole (Expenditures on health services, 2001).

We use the term welfare state or that he prefers - as Robert Castel - the welfare state, it simply just talking or social policies that directly uses the English term Welfare State, experts, political scientists and sociologists agree to consider that they are studying the same object can be summarized as follows: the direct and indirect action of the state to ensure social welfare (Harding, 1984).

Population group with reference to Demographics:

On the one hand, Australia, its social model, its welfare state and its corporations. On the other, Australia is liberal and richly endowed by nature, ...