Most of the contributors are seasoned policy activists as well as being either professional policy analysts or academics. The editor of this collection, ANNA YEATMAN, is a well-known contributor to contemporary political theory, among whose books are a seminal collection of essays on the interaction between social movements and the Australian state, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsTablesIntroduction - Anna Yeatman1 Activism and the policy process - Anna Yeatman2 Policy from the margins: reshaping the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Glyn Davis3 Development of professional competencies - a case study in the complexities of corporatist policy implementation - Andrew Gonczi and Paul Hager4 Children's services and policy activism - Deborah Brennan5 The art of insider activism: policy activism and the governance of health - Paul Dugdale6 Community activism in the health policy process: the case of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, 1987-96 - Stephanie Short7 Discourse analysis and policy activism: readings and rewritings of Australian university research policy - Gar Jones, Alison Lee and Cate Poynton8 Pink conspiracies: Australia's gay communities and national HIV/AIDS policies, 1983-96 - Gary Dowsett9 Policy activism, community housing and urban renewal: Bowden-Brompton 1972-96 - Gael Fraser10 Activists in the woodwork: policy activism and the housing reform movement in New South Wales - Julie NylandNotesBibliographyIndex

Most of the contributors are seasoned policy activists as well as being either professional policy analysts or academics. The editor of this collection, ANNA YEATMAN, is a well-known contributor to contemporary political theory, among whose books are a seminal collection of essays on the interaction between social movements and the Australian state, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsTablesIntroduction - Anna Yeatman1 Activism and the policy process - Anna Yeatman2 Policy from the margins: reshaping the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Glyn Davis3 Development of professional competencies - a case study in the complexities of corporatist policy implementation - Andrew Gonczi and Paul Hager4 Children's services and policy activism - Deborah Brennan5 The art of insider activism: policy activism and the governance of health - Paul Dugdale6 Community activism in the health policy process: the case of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, 1987-96 - Stephanie Short7 Discourse analysis and policy activism: readings and rewritings of Australian university research policy - Gar Jones, Alison Lee and Cate Poynton8 Pink conspiracies: Australia's gay communities and national HIV/AIDS policies, 1983-96 - Gary Dowsett9 Policy activism, community housing and urban renewal: Bowden-Brompton 1972-96 - Gael Fraser10 Activists in the woodwork: policy activism and the housing reform movement in New South Wales - Julie NylandNotesBibliographyIndex

Most of the contributors are seasoned policy activists as well as being either professional policy analysts or academics. The editor of this collection, ANNA YEATMAN, is a well-known contributor to contemporary political theory, among whose books are a seminal collection of essays on the interaction between social movements and the Australian state, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsTablesIntroduction - Anna Yeatman1 Activism and the policy process - Anna Yeatman2 Policy from the margins: reshaping the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Glyn Davis3 Development of professional competencies - a case study in the complexities of corporatist policy implementation - Andrew Gonczi and Paul Hager4 Children's services and policy activism - Deborah Brennan5 The art of insider activism: policy activism and the governance of health - Paul Dugdale6 Community activism in the health policy process: the case of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, 1987-96 - Stephanie Short7 Discourse analysis and policy activism: readings and rewritings of Australian university research policy - Gar Jones, Alison Lee and Cate Poynton8 Pink conspiracies: Australia's gay communities and national HIV/AIDS policies, 1983-96 - Gary Dowsett9 Policy activism, community housing and urban renewal: Bowden-Brompton 1972-96 - Gael Fraser10 Activists in the woodwork: policy activism and the housing reform movement in New South Wales - Julie NylandNotesBibliographyIndex