Melville, Roselyn --- "Competitive tendering and NSW community legal centre volunteers: an exploratory study" [2003] AltLawJl 6; (2003) 28(1) Alternative Law Journal 27

^[*] Roselyn Melville teaches in the Sociology Program at the University of Wollongong.email: rosem@uow.edu.au© 2003 Roselyn Melville (text)

^[1] Melville, R. ‘My Time is Not A Gift to Government: An Exploratory Study of NSW Community Legal Centre Volunteers’, ISCCI, Arts Faculty, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2002.

^[2] Baldcock-Vellenkoop, C., ‘Government Policies and Volunteers: Privatisation and its Discontents’, Paper presented to 4th National Conference of Volunteering, 1992, p.11; Hedley, R. and Davis, J., Volunteers and the Contract Culture, Voluntary Action Research, Third Series Paper, 1994; Leat, D., ‘Are Voluntary Organisations Accountable? in D. Billis, and M. Harris (eds), Voluntary Agencies: Challenges of Organisation and Management, Macmillan, 1996; Lewis, J., ‘What Does Contracting do to Voluntary Agencies?’ in Billis and Harris, above, ref 2, p 101-5; Russell, L. and Scott, D., Very Active Citizens? The Impact of Contracts on Volunteers, University of Manchester, 1997.

^[3] Hedley and Smith, above, ref 2, p.18; Russell and Scott, above, ref 2, pp.20, 26-27, 46.

^[4] Baldcock-Vellenkoop, above, ref 2, pp.11-12; Nowland-Foreman, G., ‘Purchase-of-Service Contracting, Voluntary Organisations, and Civil Society’, (1998), 42(1) American Behavioural Scientist, 108-16; Russell and Scott, above, ref 2, pp.8, 28.

^[5] Baldock-Vellenkook, above, ref 2, p.15; Nowland-Foreman, above, ref 4.

^[6] Common, R. and Flynn, N., Contracting for Care, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, New York, 1992; Russell and Scott, above, ref 2; Stewart, E. and Weinstein, R.S., ‘Volunteer Participation in Context: Motivations and Political Efficacy within Three Aids Organisations’, (1997) 25(6) American Journal of Community Psychology 809-29; Hedley and Davis, above, ref 2; Lewis, above, ref 2.

^[7] Russell and Scott, above, ref 2, p.9.

^[8] Combined Community Legal Centres’ Group (NSW) Inc, ‘Current Issues in Legal Aid’, Some Thoughts from NSW Community Legal Centres, April 2000, unpublished document; Combined Community Legal Centres Group (NSW) Inc, CLC Program Bulletin No 1, ‘Review of NSW CLCs’, June 2002, unpublished document.

^[9] ACOSS, Volunteering in Australia, ACOSS Paper No 74, ACOSS, Sydney, 1996; Pusey, M., ‘Middle Australians in the Grip of Economic Reform … Will they Volunteer?’ in Warburton, J. and Oppenheimer, M. (eds), Volunteers and Volunteering, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2000; Stewart and Weinstein, above, ref 6.

^[10] Between 40% and 60% of respondents indicated that they were undecided depending on the question.