Treasury’s brief to the incoming government calls for broad-scale welfare reform, among other cost-cutting measures. But welfare groups say the reforms outlined in the so-called Red Book are ineffective and risk discriminating against some of the most marginal people in the community, writes Jane Vashti Ryan.
Welfare system
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.
Richardson: The battle for the Liberal Party begins
It’s much too late in the day for yesterday’s Coalition event to really be regarded as a campaign “launch”. But it was a launch nonetheless: the launch of the battle for the post-election soul of the Liberal Party, writes Charles Richardson.
