Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman all lecture in the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wendy Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.

• Tables and figuresAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionPART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making2 Why the historical and current context matters3 Debates about social goals4 Organisational maps and policy making5 Working in organisations6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets7 The policy process as power and contestPART II CASE STUDIESIntroduction8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON12 Policy and planning in community s

Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman all lecture in the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wendy Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.

• Tables and figuresAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionPART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making2 Why the historical and current context matters3 Debates about social goals4 Organisational maps and policy making5 Working in organisations6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets7 The policy process as power and contestPART II CASE STUDIESIntroduction8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON12 Policy and planning in community s

Tony Dalton, Mary Draper and John Wiseman all lecture in the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wendy Weeks is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Melbourne.

• Tables and figuresAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionPART I MAKING SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA1 Towards a framework for understanding and participating in social policy making2 Why the historical and current context matters3 Debates about social goals4 Organisational maps and policy making5 Working in organisations6 Disputes about policy process: governments, citizens and markets7 The policy process as power and contestPART II CASE STUDIESIntroduction8 Pathways to excellence: developing Aboriginal education policy ELEANOR BOURKE9 How violence against women became an issue on the national policy agenda WENDY WEEKS AND KATE KILMORE10 The Kurds - who are they? Established Kurdish identity in Victoria HURRIYET BABACAN11 Low-start mortgages: implementation problems in a deregulated finance economy TONY DALTON12 Policy and planning in community s