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“DEREGULATING POVERTY”: LIBERAL‐NATIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Author(s) -
Bessant Judith
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1999.tb01067.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , restructuring , unemployment , coalition government , poverty , project commissioning , publishing , mandate , political science , economic growth , youth unemployment , public administration , economics , politics , philosophy , linguistics , law
It has come to be almost cliché to say that young people are among those Australians most deeply affected by the restructuring and globalisation which have reshaped the Australian experience since the early 1980s. Youth unemployment and a dramatic decline in the quantity of full‐time employment available to 16–24 year olds, and especially to 16–19 year olds, have been accompanied by declining incomes and increasing dependency on parents and social security benefits by young Australians. Winning office in March 1996 after 13 years of Labor government, and with a mandate to implement a reform agenda directed in part at improving employment prospects for young Australians, the Howard Liberal‐National Coalition government has pursued policies which impact heavily on the lives of many young Australians.