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Affirmative Action : Liberal Accommodation or Radical Trojan Horse
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Maddox, Marion |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | Affinnative action has been a subject of controversy in Australia since well before its legal birth in the Commonwealth Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986. Traditional worries from the left concern its comprehensiveness, as being too ready to settle for a limited, "liberal feminist" agenda. Critics from the right have typically worried about singling out "special interests" for "special privileges", appealing to the classical liberal commitment to fonnal equality. Currently, a new set of rightwing objections springs from the economic libertarian agenda which places an individualist concept of competition at the centre of its value system.' |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/public/download.jsp?id=4059 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |