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Making & Breaking Social Policy

by Dr Ben Lohmeyer and Dr Tin Ablaza

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About the show

Featuring a range of guests involved in making and breaking social policy, this podcast is about how we all live together (social) and how we make that work (policy). This podcast was created as the central content for teaching social policy topics to Social Work students at Flinders University. It is co-hosted by Dr Ben Lohmeyer and Dr Tin Ablaza.