ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of key institutions in policy delivery: the public sector and the public service, and business and the community sectors. The women's movement in Australia in the 1970s advocated the integration of women's policy issues into the governmental agenda, to address such issues as violence against women, equal pay, maternity leave, childcare and the right to work. The role of each department is to advise the minister on policy, to deliver the policy to the public and to monitor its implementation. The idea that the market would deliver services in every policy area more efficiently and effectively than government could or should came to dominate. Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled released a policy document entitled 'Disability Services: Policies for the Next Federal Government' in which it claimed that 'cost-shifting' by government may place disability services at risk.
