New data show just four of the 19 targets are being met or are on track to be so. With such a poor track record, it’s time for a different approach.
- Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
By keeping the BasicsCard, the federal government seems not to have taken on board the lessons from the soon to be scrapped cashless debit card
Mass unemployment is not a result of people choosing to remain on welfare. Attempts to close the “employment gap” ignore the real cause: unemployment is structural, not behavioural.
An online survey suggests they found it easier to live, easier to care for their families, and easier to prepare for the world of paid work.
Senators have granted a two-year extension to a program for which there is little supporting evidence.
The Morrison government has introduced a bill to parliament to make the cashless debit card trial ‘ongoing’.
We could do it for the price of tax cuts.
Unemployed Australians were characterised as ‘lazy’ and ‘underserving’ of government support in the 1930s. Sound familiar?
As debate grows over what should happen to JobSeeker Payment, a ‘liveable income guarantee’ turns the idea of an unemployment benefit on its head.
ParentsNext compels mothers into makework rather than work and devalues the work they do.
The government wants to triple the number of Australians on the Cashless Debit Card in the face of scant evidence it does them any good.
That the Cashless Debit Card continues to be pursued exposes a dogged obsession with implementing punitive policy at the expense of vulnerable people.
It’s a mystery why another trial of the Cashless Debit Card is necessary – particularly given how it has led to further economic and social harm among its participants.
Waves of policies from successive Coalition and Labor governments have followed a paternalistic lead. This has created further impediments to thousands of Indigenous peoples who are doing plenty.
Chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, told Q&A that $30 billion is spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia. Is that right?
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