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Date: March 13, 1997
Australia's Former Deputy Prime Minister to Speak on Social Policy
Princeton, N.J. -- Brian Howe, former deputy prime minister of Australia, will speak on "Good Social Policy: Good Politics?" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 6.
Howe, who served as a member of Australia's Parliament from 1977 until 1995, is currently a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School's Center of Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies. He is also a professorial associate at the Center for Public Policy and in the Department of Social Work at Melbourne University, where he is undertaking a research program on sustainable social policy. He also plans to teach a course on the welfare state at Melbourne later this year.
Howe taught urban sociology at Swinburne University in Melbourne before being elected to the federal parliament in 1977. During his years as a minister he held several important social policy positions, including serving as minister for defense support, minister of social security, minister for health and community services, and minister for housing and regional development. He was responsible for a series of major policy reviews concerning social security, housing, health, and urban and regional development. The reforms that developed from those reviews included a national child support scheme, a major restructuring of family assistance designed to aid the working poor, reform of social security programs, a reworking of Australia's retirement policies in anticipation of a greater number of elderly in the next century, and provision of more adequate housing assistance for low-income people.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.