Community development, citizenship and the contract state

• DOI: 10.1093/cdj/31.2.126
• Publication Date: 2012-04-19T00:16:50Z
• Authors: L. Hoatson; J. Dixon; D. Sloman
• Keywords: Social Contract

A new conservative Victorian state government has adopted, and extended, overseas privatisation approaches for resourcing managing human services. In some localities, these are destroying the infrastructure of community Without a dynamic services sector, opportunities social citizenship will remain elusive. This outcome parallels other Government actions that deny longstanding rights to political citizenship.