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Various studies, culminating in the final evaluation report of income management in the Northern Territory, have found such programs don’t achieve the claimed benefits. Why did the budget extend them?
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm has said that probably half to two-thirds of the Australian population is receiving some form of government benefit. Is that right?
Welfare policy was a political hot potato in the referendum campaign, and it’s a big weapon for the SNP in 2015 too.
The problems with benefits lie outside the system, while more and more of us are being dragged into its orbit.
Our experts analyse the evidence on the Conservatives’ big ticket policies.
Research indicates that Conservative proposals will increase incentives for the unemployed to return to work, but it won’t reduce poverty.
Both major parties have tried to address their key weaknesses head on – but it’s too late to change voters’ perceptions.
Implying that 80% of Australian income tax goes straight towards the welfare bill overlooks the fact that a large proportion of income taxpayers benefit from social security.
Five years of Coalition government later, it is clear that the poorest have paid most dearly as a result of various tax and benefit changes.
Labour claims that the bedroom tax has hit over half a million people, two-thirds of them disabled. Has it?
Australia’s rising number of pensioners leaves the government conflicted on pensions and how they are indexed.
The policy solution to the ageing population laid out in the Intergenerational Report benefits the better-off in the future over the less well-off today.
The claim that New Zealand’s investment approach to welfare reform has been “very successful” is at best unproven. Arguably, it is plain wrong.
The Intergenerational Report may actually be underestimating the scale of the budgetary challenges ahead.
Responses to family violence by Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten and the terms of reference for Victoria’s royal commission fail to mention young people. Such a lack of recognition has dire consequences.
The “vow” that the main UK party leaders made to boost the powers of the Scottish parliament in the days before the independence referendum started a sequence of events that will see welfare benefits vary…
Scott Morrison’s appointment as minister for social services in late December 2014 has been seen as an important step for the Abbott government as it moves towards its second budget. The tasks he faces…
The new powers that look set to be devolved to Scotland include major changes for disability policy. Until now, Holyrood’s involvement in this area has been restricted to the NHS and social care – and…
Fifty years ago, Lyndon Johnson spoke of war on poverty and pursuit of a great society. He talked about investing in education and employment and about eliminating social exclusion that comes with poverty…
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