How can Labor promote itself as fair if it fails to care for those excluded from the paid workforce?
Newstart allowance
Cox: whatever happened to Labor and egalitarianism? The no fair-go
The current government’s various social policy commitments have done little to improve equality for the poorest Australians.
Budget breakdown: making a society more fragile
The federal budget uses social stereotyping to show the government as tough.
Labor brings welfare quarantining to a Centrelink near you!
Rather than attempting to punish struggling, low-income families, the government should be dealing with the underlying causes of neglect and delivering proper support for families in crisis, writes Fernando de Freitas.
Pension v dole: what’s the dollar difference?
Will under-67-year-olds be worse off on the dole instead of the pension? We crunch the numbers.
Is nixing CDEP Howard’s assimilation solution?
Many people have been searching for reasons behind PM Howard’s abolition of the C.D.E.P programs. None was given when this was announced as part of the N.T Emergency Response. It has been assumed that it was done, in part, so that 50% of their income could be “quarantined” – something that could not be done with wages, but only with Centrelink payments.
