Expanding equality: A historical perspective on developments and dilemmas in contemporary Australian social democracy.

该项目将首次分析历届工党政府对平等的政策观点(包括阶级、性别、种族、性取向、技术和地区不平等)是如何随着时间的推移而变化和扩大的。在一些批评人士指责工党受新自由主义意识形态的影响背叛其平等主义传统，而另一些人指责工党通过追求少数群体社会问题来忽视工人之际，这将为当代澳大利亚工党带来新的曙光。它将为有关社会民主危机的国际文献(通过探讨平等政策发展在这一危机中的作用)以及如何在政策中最好地构思和解决不平等问题，提供澳大利亚独特的贡献。

This project will be the first to analyse how successive Labor governments’ policy perspectives on equality (including class, gender, race, sexuality, technological and regional inequality) have changed and expanded over time. It will throw new light on contemporary Australian Labor Party at a time when some critics accuse Labor of betraying its egalitarian traditions due to the influence of neoliberal ideology, while others accuse Labor of neglecting workers by pursuing minority social issues. It will provide a distinctive Australian contribution to the international literatures on the crisis of social democracy (by exploring the role of equality policy developments in that crisis) and on how inequality is best conceived and addressed in policy.