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There are obviously many uses to which surplus can be put. ' sector have to be weighed against other government expenditure areas, such as defence, foreign affairs, transport, agriculture, telecommunications, and so on. While the surplus grows rapidly all of the sectors can expand comfortably. As the grO\yth slows down, competition becomes more fierce and the legitimacy of the 'non-productive' sector is increasingly questioned. The politics of backlash starts to play a role and arguments about 'responsible government spending', about 'dole bludgers', about 'excessive taxation', about 'system overload', and so on are increasingly heard.
As power was a central feature of the Plan the nature of the power that accompanied participation was quite important. Citizen participation has been examined critically in the literature and it Australian Social Policy 1972-75 45 has been seen as a form of tokenism, as a form of community socio-therapy, as a form of market research and also as a form of power. ) Within an attempt to develop the regional stance by using participation as a strategy, a case can be made for justifying a regional structure that is a new structure if it is concerned with the achievement of new sorts of goals (planning-oriented institutional welfare goals) by new sorts of people (welfare consumers and participants).
What would be the nature of responsibility? 'Representative regionalism' must be distinguished, then, from the purely administrative concept wh ich is concerned simply with the spatial deconcentration of administrative units. There was, however, no representative electoral system on which the Regional Councils for Social Development could depend. As power was a central feature of the Plan the nature of the power that accompanied participation was quite important. Citizen participation has been examined critically in the literature and it Australian Social Policy 1972-75 45 has been seen as a form of tokenism, as a form of community socio-therapy, as a form of market research and also as a form of power.