Volunteers are the New Black
The drivers of reform across Australia’s health and social care sector are pushing a sector to change not only how it does things, but also how it thinks about things. The “professionalisation” of Australia’s care saw the growing demarcation of work and power between clients, staff, and volunteers. By the 1990’s double degrees, topped up with a post graduate qualification would impress interview panels for many front line roles. A decade or so earlier, volunteers or informal