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The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
Meet the real Daniel Blakes.
Social welfare budgets have simply not been adequate to plug decades’ worth of under-resourcing, especially in black communities. It’s a good place for government to start giving life to its slogans
The unfolding social grant payment crisis in South Africa threatens the livelihoods of a third of the country’s population.
By far the most significant projected savings in the government’s omnibus bill is the phasing out of end-of-year supplements for family tax benefit recipients.
Labour force data actually shows that, after an initial period of relatively high unemployment, employment rates among migrant communities eventually reach parity with the rest of the population.
Centrelink’s debt recovery problems reflect an over-simplistic application of policy to the complexity of workers’ lives in a flexible labour market.
The present Australian social security and welfare system can be viewed as a UBI scheme with exceptions for people who don’t need it.
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.
Australia is now having a national conversation on domestic violence. Yet the way violence degrades women’s financial status remains in the shadows. Much more needs to be done.
Research shows that when the government cuts housing benefit, it harms the mental health of those affected.
Despite media reports that single parents might find relying on welfare payments more appealing than working, analysis shows they are better off working and more than half in Australia are.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
A snapshot of the availability of jobs has shown limited employment opportunities for disadvantaged job seekers, indicating the need for a new approach to getting these people into work.
The effects of unaffordable housing cascade into other areas of life, in particular, affecting mental health.
Any reforms must move beyond a focus on administrative processes to acknowledge the lived experiences of child support which can be disguised by formal policy.
Any new approach to linking welfare payments to attendance must address the flaws of previous trials. It will require the cooperation of schools and the availability of accurate, real-time data.
University of Canberra professorial fellow Michelle Grattan and senior lecturer in political science Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics.
Scott Morrison posted a this-was-mine claim on Facebook after Christian Porter promoted what was received as a fresh approach to welfare reform in his Tuesday speech.
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor, College of Business, Government & Law, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Professor in Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Government, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor & Director, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Professor of Economics, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University