ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the challenge of using group work to make history. It shows group work is a vital part both of community work and of social movements. Radical changes are also marking the relationship between Australian governments and the economy as governments sell off utilities like electricity and water, contract out their work and services, and generally try to reduce the scale of government interventions. Working with groups can help a small community meet some need it has by organising its own resources better or get some new resources into that community. It can fundamental to a national struggle for liberation from oppression, exploitation and the exercise of power by unrepresentative elites. Social movements typically involve large struggles involving large numbers of people who want to change some basic feature of their social world. The Women’s Movement has been active and alive and well since the late 1960s, when organisations like Women’s Liberation and the Women’s Electoral Lobby began.
