Abstract
This article offers an overview of recent attempts to reconfigure the relationship between state and civil society in Australia. The article offers five models of how state/civil society relations might play out under the Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal government. These models include corporate, nostalgic, technological, neo-liberal, and the UK government’s Big Society variants. The article concludes that the Turnbull government’s approach to civic renewal is not innovative, and has reverted to a thin corporate model of state/civil society relations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 121-125 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 23 Feb 2017 |
Keywords
- Australia, ‘Big Society’
- civil society
- Liberal party