Philip Mendes

In this fully revised third edition of Australia’s Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia. Rather than concentrating on the history of the welfare state, or the process of making social policy, Mendes examines welfare politics in Australia...

This is the first progressive book to argue that the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel is the wrong way to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; rather, it argues that peace will come only when both Israelis' and Palestinians' legitimate claims to statehood are recognised by both sides. The BDS movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions) against Israel has...