Product Description: Australians know very little about how Indigenous Australians came to gain the civil rights that other Australians had long taken for granted. One of the key reasons for this is the entrenched belief that civil rights were handed to Indigenous people and not won by them...read more

Product Description: The Gateshead Community Care Scheme marked a unique departure in the development of community care for older people. This book charts the impact of the scheme, which devolved resource control to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text aims to provide a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990s. It presents findings from a national study of social care from the perspective of the older service users, their carers and care managers. Descriptive findings from this longitudinal study - conducted by the PSSRU from 1994 and funded by the Department of Health - are set in the context of the history of community care and developments since the passage of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Unlike that of the United States of America, Australia’s constitution provides no definition of the rights of its citizens. Here is the first publication of key documents that clearly define the rights and entitlements of Australian citizens with editorial commentary on the shifting nature of citizenship rights...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the ways in which Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been excluded from the rights of Australian citizenship over the past 100 years. Drawing extensively on archival material, the authors look at how the colonies initiated a policy of exclusion that was then replicated by the Commonwealth and State governments following federation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Caring for Older People: Developing Specialist Practice addresses the care of older people in the community, nursing and residential homes, and in the hospital setting. This unique text charts the development of this nursing specialty and contains a broad range of up-to-date, evidence-based material covering aspects such as quality of life, mobility, social interaction, sexuality, community perspectives and the care of those with learning disabilities or mental health problems...read more