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Philip Mendes

Professor, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
philip.mendes@monash.edu

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Core expertise

Social work

Biography

Philip teaches social policy and community development, and is the director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work. His key research areas include young people transitioning from out-home-care, income support including compulsory income management, social workers and policy practice, illicit drugs policy, Indigenous social policy, and Jewish community responses to institutional child sexual abuse.

How Australian policymakers ignore the evidence on supporting those living in poverty post image

How Australian policymakers ignore the evidence on supporting those living in poverty

How the media framed the public debate on a second Melbourne injecting room post image

How the media framed the public debate on a second Melbourne injecting room

Malka Leifer, the school board and the legal consequences of failing to report child sexual abuse in Victoria post image

Malka Leifer, the school board and the legal consequences of failing to report child sexual abuse in Victoria

Ideology before evidence: How neoliberals have responded to recent Australian welfare reform measures post image

Ideology before evidence: How neoliberals have responded to recent Australian welfare reform measures

Fixing the cracks in Australia’s out-of-home-care leaving system post image

Fixing the cracks in Australia’s out-of-home-care leaving system

Exposing government policies that fail to address structural disadvantage post image

Exposing government policies that fail to address structural disadvantage

It’s right to abolish the Cashless Debit Card, but what about the BasicsCard? post image

It’s right to abolish the Cashless Debit Card, but what about the BasicsCard?

Going Green: The political party setting the agenda in social welfare reform post image

Going Green: The political party setting the agenda in social welfare reform

Why is poverty not a priority for Australia’s major political parties? post image

Why is poverty not a priority for Australia’s major political parties?

Medically supervised injecting rooms and the politics of illicit drug policy post image

Medically supervised injecting rooms and the politics of illicit drug policy

Reassessing the social context of illicit drug use and addiction post image

Reassessing the social context of illicit drug use and addiction

Addressing child sexual abuse inside Australian Jewish organisations post image

Addressing child sexual abuse inside Australian Jewish organisations