The Australian National Social Policy Conference is an annual event organised by the University of New South Wales Social Policy Research Centre. The 1995 conference, held in July, attracted over 500 participants, many of whom were academics. Approximately 20 made the trip from New Zealand. The these of the conference, Social Policy and the Challenges of Social Change, provided an opportunity to think about the meaning of the complex and profound changes which have occurred in Australia social and economic life in recent decades and their implications for social policy in the years to come. These issues were addressed in the selected papers summarised below:
