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Abstract
This article considers the place of the non-government sector in Australia in the mixed economy of welfare. This sector - particularly faith-based organisations - has taken a shifting position in relation to the state, market and family in the provision of care. In Australia and New Zealand, strong state regulation of the labour market, combined with relative underdevelopment of formal welfare provision, contributes to a distinctive mixed economy of welfare. The article sketches the consequences for the independence of the faith-based sector, its fragmented and disorganised development and the relative absence of aspects such as philanthropy and mutual aid.
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John Murphy
John Murphy is Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Until 2005, he was Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University. He is the author of Harvest of fear: A history of Australia’s Vietnam War (1993) and Imagining the fifties: Private sentiment and political culture in Menzies’ Australia (2000), both of which were short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Awards.
