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

这个项目将是第一个分析历届工党政府关于平等的政策观点（包括阶级、性别、种族、性别、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。有人指责工党受新自由主义思想的影响，背叛了平等主义传统，也有人指责工党追求少数群体的社会问题，忽视了工人，在这种情况下，这将为当代澳大利亚工党提供新的视角。它将为社会民主危机的国际文献（通过探索平等政策发展在该危机中的作用）以及如何在政策中最好地构思和解决不平等问题提供独特的澳大利亚贡献。

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.