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Are we helping people, or just helping them survive an unfair system? 🚩

In this 10-slide masterclass, we dive deep into Marxist Theory and its radical application within Australian Community Services. If you’ve ever felt like you’re just putting a band-aid on a gaping wound caused by the housing crisis or wage stagnation, this presentation is for you.

What’s Inside:
Base vs. Superstructure: How the Australian economy dictates our welfare laws.
The Myth of Meritocracy: Unpacking "False Consciousness" and why clients blame themselves for systemic failures.
Exploitation in the Care Sector: Why essential workers (Aged Care, Disability, Childcare) are often the most underpaid.
From Case Work to Advocacy: Why individual "fixes" aren't enough and why collective action is the future of social work.
According to ACOSS (2024), over 3 million Australians live below the poverty line, many of whom are "working poor." Marxism provides the toolkit to understand why full-time work no longer guarantees a life free from poverty in the 21st century.

Key Data for Context

To ground your presentation in the current Australian climate, consider these "Marxist" realities:
The Wage-Profit Gap: In 2023-2024, corporate profits in Australia hit record highs while the real wage share of total income remained near historic lows.
The "Working Poor": Data shows that roughly 1 in 15 Australians living in poverty are in households where the main earner is employed full-time, illustrating Marx's theory of surplus-value exploitation.
Wealth Inequality: The wealthiest 1% of Australians own more than 22% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% own just 6%.

Keywords & Metadata

Primary Keywords: Marxism in Community Services, Karl Marx Sociology, Australian Social Policy, Structural Inequality Australia, Class Conflict Community Work.

Secondary Keywords: Capitalism vs Welfare, False Consciousness in Social Work, Collective Action, Advocacy for Workers, CHC52021, Social Work Theory.

Hashtags

#CommunityServices #SocialWork #Marxism #SocialJustice #SystemicChange #AustralianPolitics #Advocacy #ClassConflict #EndPoverty #Sociology101 #WorkersRights #FairWorkAU