Michael Horsburgh - Honoraray Associate Professor

Current Position
Retired, Honorary Associate Professor

Research Interests
Religion and Social Policy

Other Offices Held
Member, Social Security Appeals Tribunal

Monographs

The Volunteer Bureau: A Pilot Study, Queanbeyan, Australian Government Social Welfare Commission, 1975.

In Penitence and Hope: Remarriage in the Anglican Church, Sydney, Anglican General Synod, 1989 (with Margaret Rodgers).

Chapters in Books

'"The right of choice", Poverty: the ACOSS evidence', Sydney, ACOSS, 1973, p. 353.

'Relationships between government and voluntary organisations in social welfare', in F. Pavlin, et. al. (eds.), Perspectives in Australian Social Work, Melbourne, PIT publishing, 1979, pp.17-34.

'Organisational goals in an historical review: the New South Wales foster care system, 1881-1890', in R.C. Sarri and R.J. Lawrence, Issues in the Evaluation of Social Welfare Programmes: Australian Case Illustrations, Sydney, N.S.W. University Press, 1980, pp. 59-63.

'Social Welfare', Macquarie Book of Events, Sydney, Macquarie Library, 1983, pp. 457-65.

"Welfare", in D.H. Borchardt (ed) Australians: A Guide to Sources, Sydney, Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987, pp. 356-364 (with A. Graycar and D. Wyndham).

'Christian values, immigration and Australia', in B.N. Kaye and J.W. Nevile (eds) Immigration and the Kind of Australia We Want, New College, University of NSW, 1989.

'Policy and practice in community welfare', in R. Blackmore, The Children's Court and Community Welfare in NSW, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1989, pp. 91-104.

'The family - problem or challenge?' in Paul Henman (ed.), Crosstalk: Topics of Australian Church and Society, Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1991, pp.78-89.

'A response from Michael Horsburgh', in Margaret Rodgers and Maxwell Thomas (eds), A Theology of the Human Person, North Blackburn, Collins Dove, 1992, pp 35-42.

Benjamin Danks, Wallace Deane, E.J. Rodd in Brian Dickey (ed.), The Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Sydney, Evangelical History Association, 1994.

'Community, power and relativism', in J. Nevile (ed.) The Silent University: Social Responsibility and Educational Values. Proceedings of a symposium, New College Institute for Values Research, New College, University of New South Wales, 18 March 1994, pp.71-75.

'Government and Welfare: the Australian Constitution and social policy', in Social Welfare in the Contemporary World: Australia and New Zealand, Tokyo, Junpousha, 2000, pp. 36-50 (in Japanese).

Thomas Henry KEWLEY (1911-1989), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (in press).

Articles in Journals

'The Schizophrenic Principal', Wesley College Journal, 1968.

'The South Australian Juvenile Courts Act, 1971 and Community Welfare Act, 1972'. Australian Social Work, Vol. 25, No. 3, September, 1972, pp. 31-37.

'Ethical issues in preventive programmes for mental health' (delivered to 25th Congress, World Federation for Mental Health 1973), Australian Social Work, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 1974, pp. 17-24.

(Editor and part author), Submission on Review of Child Welfare Legislation, Sydney, AASW, (NSW Branch), 1974.

'Child care in N.S.W. in 1870', Australian Social Work, Vol. 29, No. 1, March, 1976, pp. 3-24.

'National health insurance: the Australian experience', Social Perspectives, Vol. 4, No. 1, November, 1976.

'Randwick Asylum: organisational resistance to social change', Australian Social Work, Vol. 30, No. 1, March, 1977, pp. 15-24.

'Some issues in the government subsidy of hospitals in New South Wales: 1858-1910', Medical History, Vol. 21, No. 2, April, 1977, pp. 166-181.

'Government policy and the Benevolent Society', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 63, Part 2, September, 1977, pp. 77-93.

'Child Care in New South Wales in 1890', Australian Social Work, Vol. 30, No. 3, September 1977, pp. 21-40.

'Subsidy and control: social welfare activities of the New South Wales Government: 1858-1910', Journal of Australian Studies, No.2, November, 1977, pp. 64-92.

'Insecure families: early adoption practices in New South Wales', Australian Child and Family Welfare, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1978, pp. 17-24.

'The apprenticing of orphan children in NSW 1850-1885' Journal of Australian Studies, No. 7, November, 1980, pp. 33-54.

'The churches of New South Wales and the care of neglected children', Church Heritage, Vol. 2, No. 4, September, 1982, pp. 271-288.

'No sufficient security: the reaction of the Poor Law authorities to boarding-out', Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, January, 1983, pp. 51-73.

'Her father's daughter: Florence Davenport Hill, 1829-1919', International Social Work, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, 1983, pp. 1-13.

'Social Security Appeals Tribunal', Australian Social Work, Vol.36, No. 4, December, 1983, pp. 15-22.

'Christianity and social work', Interchange, 36, 1985, p.53-66.

'Australian social security appeals', Journal of Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 20, No. 3, Autumn, 1986, pp. 201-16.

'The Politics of Welfare' (Review Article), Journal of Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 21, No. 2 Summer, 1987, pp. 207-11.

'An impaired policy: invalid pensions since the May Economic Statement', Australian Social Welfare: Impact, Vol. 17, No. 7, November 1987, pp. 6-8.

'David Laseron: a clergyman in the Rookwood Asylum', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 73, Part 3, December, 1987, pp. 220-233.

'Christianity and Social Work: Some Practice Issues', Social Work and Christianity, Vol. 14, No. 2 Fall 1987, pp. 63-77.

'Words and deeds: Christianity and social welfare', Australian Social Work, Vol. 41, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 17-24.

'Legislating to reform disability programs: Accommodating the Cass Proposals', Seminar, Renovating the Social Security Act, Monash University Law Faculty, Melbourne, 30 July 1988. Australian Social Welfare: Impact, Vol. 18, No.7, October 1988, pp. 9-11.

'Government and social welfare', Sydney Christian Economists Group, Symposium, Robert Menzies College, 19 March 1988 Interchange, 43, 1988, pp.41-46.

'Policy for practice', Status quo, Challenge and Prospect, Proceedings of the Seminar on Social Work Education in the Asian and Pacific Region, Beijing, China, 15-19 December, 1988, Peking University Press, 1990, pp 393-399 (with Janet George).

'Middle axioms and social policy: an Australian Perspective', Social Policy and Administration, Vol.25, No.2, June, 1991, pp.121-135.

"Theological education and change in society", 14th Joint Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools and the Australian and New Zealand Society for Theological Studies, Sydney, 8-12 July, 1991, Colloquium, Vol.23, No. 3, October 1991, pp 109-121.

'Curriculum discussions at Newton College', Melanesian Journal of Theology, Vol.8, No.1, April 1992, pp.6-14.

"A theological curriculum for the whole person." Conference of the Melanesian Association of Theological Schools, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 30 June - 4 July 1992. Melanesian Journal of Theology, Vol.8, No.2, October 1992, pp.7-17.

'Changing Relationships: issues in the contracting of welfare services', Asia-Pacific Regional Social Services Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, 20-23 November 1995; Proceedings: Partnerships that Work?, 1996, pp.150-154.

'In praise of a professional journal', Editorial, Australian Social Work, Vol.48, No.2, December 1995. p.2.

'Issues in the development of a social security appeals system', International Symposium on Social Security, China International Conference Centre for Science and Technology, Beijing, 28-29 August 1993, Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1996, pp.81-96.

'Towards an inclusive spirituality: wholeness interdependence and waiting.' Keynote address, Inaugural Australian Conference on Disability, Religion and Health: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Disability, Schonell Special Education Research Centre, University of Queensland, 18-20 October 1996, Disability and Rehabilitation, Vol.19, No.10, October 1997, pp. 398-406.

'The writing on the wall', St. Mark's Review, No. 174, Winter 1998, pp.11-17.


'Knowing and doing justice in a new millennium',. (Address to the National Forum of the National Council of Churches in Australia, Sydney, 3 October 1998) Lutheran Theological Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, August 1999, pp. 86-96.

'Doing Good Well: Celebrating 60 years of Social Work at the University of Sydney', Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Sociology, University of Sydney, November 2000.