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ABSTRACT Through colonial eyes, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are seen as subjects void of agency. They have been treated by the Australian polity as though they are in great... Read more
ABSTRACT The 1967 Australian Referendum and subsequent constitutional reform are widely considered a victory for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and an elevating moment in Austr... Read more
ABSTRACT Internationally, in-work benefits (IWBs) are widely adopted as a measure to assist parents transitioning to work and to ‘make work pay’ for low-income families. The family income su... Read more
ABSTRACT Authoritarianism seems to be emerging as the default mode of global capitalism. In the absence of reliable economic growth, and with working-class incomes in long-term stagnation, b... Read more
ABSTRACT Introduced in 2016, the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) is part of a welfare policy trial designed to restrict and direct the expenditure of Aboriginal people receiving a range of governm... Read more
EXTRACT This discussion paper is about inequality, particularly income and wealth inequality, and how it affects the wider social inequalities in health and wellbeing. The central message is... Read more
EXTRACT The State of the Nation Report 2020 looks back on one decade and forward to a brand new one. These reports measure the progress of people’s wellbeing. The focus of social progress is... Read more
EXTRACT Both public awareness and political participation bear on the effective mobilization of tax resources, redistribution and public action to reduce poverty. On the one hand, the public... Read more
Table of Contents Introduction to the special issue on welfare conditionality in Australia Conditionality in Australia’s welfare state has sustained a significant academic critique, includin... Read more
ABSTRACT Australia is a rich nation – the richest in the world, if we assess it on median income (50th percentile). Yet we have one of the meanest sets of welfare payments of the OECD... Read more
ABSTRACT The assumption that “welfare dependency” is passed from generation to generation is persistent in public attitudes. We explore intergenerational transmission of social assistance th... Read more
ABSTRACT This article examines the impact of the two world wars on welfare legislation in 16 western countries. We use Poisson regressions to test our hypothesis that war was a catalyst of w... Read more
EXTRACT Understanding social aspects of parental well-being is vital because parents’ welfare has implications not only for the parents themselves but also for child development, fertility,... Read more
ABSTRACT The uptake and implementation of universal health coverage (UHC) is primarily a political, rather than a technical, exercise, with contested ideas and diverse stakeholders capable o... Read more
