Activism and the policy process

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Acknowledgments..Contributors..Tables..Introduction - Anna Yeatman..1 Activism and the policy process - Anna Yeatman..2 Policy from the margins: reshaping the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Glyn Davis..3 Development of professional competencies - a case study in the complexities of corporatist policy implementation - Andrew Gonczi and Paul Hager..4 Children's services and policy activism - Deborah Brennan..5 The art of insider activism: policy activism and the governance of health - Paul Dugdale..6 Community activism in the health policy process: the case of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, 1987-96 - Stephanie Short..7 Discourse analysis and policy activism: readings and rewritings of Australian university research policy - Gar Jones, Alison Lee and Cate Poynton..8 Pink conspiracies: Australia's gay communities and national HIV/AIDS policies, 1983-96 - Gary Dowsett..9 Policy activism, community housing and urban renewal: Bowden-Brompton 1972-96 - Gael Fraser..10 Activists in the woodwork: policy activism and the housing reform movement in New South Wales - Julie Nyland..Notes..Bibliography..Index