Eva Cox writes, ‘If the Government were upfront about its reluctance to fund all low income households to stay at home with children, they would not find so much support.’
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Eva Cox
Eva Cox AO is a contributing author to CPD’s recent publication More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now. Eva’s chapter Strengthening our social fabric argues that we need to rethink our tax and income policy practices to make our society more civil. Eva was until recently Program Director, Social Inquiry at the University of Technology Sydney, and is now practicing being an unattached change agent while reviving her consultancy, Distaff Associates. She is the national Chair of the Women’s Electoral Lobby – an organisation in which she was a founding member in 1972. A strong feminist and advocate for women’s issues, she delivered the 1995 ABC Boyer Lectures on A Truly Civil Society which she is still trying to achive (available through ABC Books). She has researched and published on many policy and other social issues recently including: child care, sole parents and welfare payments, superannuation, social capital, community well being, asylum seekers, corporate social responsibility, research and evalution. A frequent media commentator, she sees herself as a problem solver rather than a specialist. Her current research interests include devising a more civil society, teaching community research skillls, policy formulation, indigenous child-care and domestic violence, the Welfare to Work program, and a wide range of gender issues, including parental leave. Articles by Eva Cox:
How do we define fair? A summary
Eva Cox summarises her policy principles: ‘Offering alternative policies that emphasise connectedness and common responsibilities can counter feelings of isolation that neoliberals rely on.’
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How do we define fair?
Can we establish the principles that would frame the development of policies to produce and support a fairer Australia? How do we define fair? We tend to use terms like the public and common good, social justice, fairness and equity but rarely do we define what we mean or, explore which aspects of public/social policy are more or less likely to succeed. How do we create political and social cultures that make risk bearable, turn uncertainty into opportunities, and make available civil society for all?
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A social plimsoll line?
When citizens are treated like consumers they become subject to all the risks contained in the old Latin phrase caveat emptor – let the buyer beware, writes Eva Cox. more
Reframing the issues of unfairness
Eva Cox Believes that we need to move from counting victims and expecting the victors to be nice to us, to discussing why the present system is both dysfunctional and unethical. And asks, ‘how can it be ethical to make high office hard for women who have family responsibilities?’
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