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The first independent, multisite study of compulsory income management in Australia suggest little evidence to support political enthusiasm to extend the policy.
There’s no evidence drug use is a barrier to job seeking. And testing can’t distinguish between one off, irregular or regular use.
Income management was first applied to Indigenous communities before being implemented more widely. The Healthy Welfare Card policy appears to be on this same path.
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?
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Advisor, Author and Researcher, The University of Queensland
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ARC Discovery Indigenous Award Researcher, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Griffith University
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Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland