For more than half a century, policy experts have been putting forward plans to simplify the income-support system. Some of the more radical plans, such as a negative income tax, would replace our current system of allowances and pensions with a single unconditional payment paid on the basis of need. The simplifiers see reform as a technical problem: an effort to balance the goals of poverty alleviation, maintenance of work incentives and affordability. A simpler system would achieve this aim. Much of the complexity in Australia’s current system stems from two features: separate payment types for recipients who are expected to work and those who are not; and for those who are expected to work, measures designed to deter long-term dependence...
In an essay titled ‘What is social policy’, Richard Titmuss wrote: ‘What is “welfare” for some group...
In 2006, the Howard government’s Welfare to Work reforms placed new eligibility requirements ...
This paper explores contemporary contradictions and tensions in Australian social policy principles ...
Integrated models are the icons of a new welfare policy and practice in Australia, writes Paul Smyth...
Contrary to popular perception, Australia\u27s welfare system is up there with Scandinavian countrie...
In Australian welfare reform debate, a range of approaches and policies has been advocated. Regardle...
The most common criticism of recent welfare reform in Australian is that it ignores structural cause...
Nearly four years ago, Prime Minister John Key announced a major reform of the welfare system. He de...
Income distribution is a key element in any approach to social policy, and as such is an important s...
On 29 September 1999, the then Australian Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator the Ho...
For much of the postwar period, the Australian welfare state has been mis-understood by overseas soc...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer recently declared that Britain can no longer afford the cost of the ...
The Welfare Review Report has finally been released. It advocates a "new flexible so...
Australia's income support system has always been conditional. However, since the mid-1990s conditio...
The broad scale changes to the Australian income support policy by Neo-liberals, such as Peter Saund...
In an essay titled ‘What is social policy’, Richard Titmuss wrote: ‘What is “welfare” for some group...
In 2006, the Howard government’s Welfare to Work reforms placed new eligibility requirements ...
This paper explores contemporary contradictions and tensions in Australian social policy principles ...
Integrated models are the icons of a new welfare policy and practice in Australia, writes Paul Smyth...
Contrary to popular perception, Australia\u27s welfare system is up there with Scandinavian countrie...
In Australian welfare reform debate, a range of approaches and policies has been advocated. Regardle...
The most common criticism of recent welfare reform in Australian is that it ignores structural cause...
Nearly four years ago, Prime Minister John Key announced a major reform of the welfare system. He de...
Income distribution is a key element in any approach to social policy, and as such is an important s...
On 29 September 1999, the then Australian Minister for Family and Community Services, Senator the Ho...
For much of the postwar period, the Australian welfare state has been mis-understood by overseas soc...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer recently declared that Britain can no longer afford the cost of the ...
The Welfare Review Report has finally been released. It advocates a "new flexible so...
Australia's income support system has always been conditional. However, since the mid-1990s conditio...
The broad scale changes to the Australian income support policy by Neo-liberals, such as Peter Saund...
In an essay titled ‘What is social policy’, Richard Titmuss wrote: ‘What is “welfare” for some group...
In 2006, the Howard government’s Welfare to Work reforms placed new eligibility requirements ...
This paper explores contemporary contradictions and tensions in Australian social policy principles ...