Constituencies for welfare: Public responses to Australia's 'new welfare state'

主要的国家和社区利益属于研究优先事项2：促进和保持良好的健康，特别是“加强澳大利亚的社会和经济结构”。澳大利亚的福利国家有助于维持社会结构，但其表现取决于公民对福利的目的和结果的信心。这个项目调查了澳大利亚人对最近福利变化的了解程度，并衡量了他们对政策方向的信心。该项目将对公众对澳大利亚政府最大的财政责任领域的反应进行新的研究，为政策制定者提供新的分析和数据工具，并加强澳大利亚在福利改革研究方面的国际形象。

The main national and community benefits fall within Research Priority 2: Promoting and Maintaining Good Health, and particularly 'Strengthening Australia's social and economic fabric'. Australia's welfare state helps maintain the social fabric, but its performance depends on citizens' confidence in the purposes and outcomes of welfare. This project investigates how well Australians understand recent welfare changes, and measures their confidence in policy directions. The project will produce fresh research into the public's response to the Australian government's largest area of fiscal responsibility, provide new analytical and data tools for policymakers, and strengthen Australia's international profile in research into welfare reform.