Abstract
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative programme of social welfare reform. Foreshadowed in the late 1960s, launched in 1973, and abolished in 1977, it was the subject of substantial commentary during and immediately after its brief existence. Attracting more brickbats than bouquets, the AAP was variously described as a feasible and indeed exciting approach, the most random of random experiments, welfare on the cheap, a confusing program and good news.2 In contrast to other major initiatives of the Whitlam Labor government, it has attracted almost no scholarly analysis since the 1970s.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The State of Welfare |
| Subtitle of host publication | Comparative Studies of the Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965-1980 |
| Publisher | Peter Lang AG |
| Pages | 85-104 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781787077935 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781787071032 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |