Labor inherited middle class welfare from John Howard, but it has nourished the entitlement mentality. Don’t households earning over $100,000 and receiving benefits deserve the “bludgers” tag?
Welfare
Whatever happened to evidence-based policy making?
The federal government is adding another serious question to its social and financial policy competence by informing the public that it is proceeding with the promised evaluation of the New Income Management Program.
Call off the razor gang and fix the safety net: welfare groups
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.
Income management evidence trivialised in a lemonade solution
Jenny Macklin’s response to the latest evidence that Income Management doesn’t work is only the latest example of anti-evidence based decisions in the welfare system, writes Eva Cox
Super: Reckless Labor’s great unfunded swindle
Labor is doing virtually nothing about Australia’s huge middle-class welfare system. The Australian public sector is living beyond its means such that big tax rises and spending cuts are inevitable.
Hating Alison Ashley and all of the other young people
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States stick it up Rudd
All those commitments Kevin Rudd is making to the states to buy their support for health reform will add up to more middle-class welfare. Whoever wins out of this, taxpayers will be the losers.
Discrimination goes beyond Centrelink’s entitlement ‘pink list’
The reforms to Centrelink’s entitlements for same-sex relationships takes money from gay people on low incomes and gives it to richer couples, writes Daniel Stubbs.
The nasty maternalistic state
Sole parents and the unemployed beware: Jenny Macklin is trying to take half your income away. It’s the most drastic change to our social security system ever — and almost nobody knows about it, reports Eva Cox.
Tough Love: has it ever worked?
As the government prepares to roll out income management to all Australian welfare recipients, health policy experts ask: will it actually improve Australian’s health and wellbeing? A resounding “NO”.
Income management works. Roll it out.
The government’s plan to extend income management beyond the NT intervention to the rest of Australia is good policy, says former Howard government adviser David Moore. Tough love is needed to protect women and children.
Stop kicking the inconvenient statistics
To force young people into training or education is cruel and unproductive, especially in the bush. It is a very brutal way of reducing the youth unemployment statistics, writes Lionel Elmore.
Budget countdown: incomes between a tax cut and a hard place
Australia has an unfair, warped and immensely costly approach to incomes policy and the coming budget is the ideal time to start the long process of fixing it.
Tips and rumours
Following up your story on the Film School, you might like to look at how many head teachers and senior executives have left since the coming of Sandra Levy. Two senior executives have left in the past few months and several heads of department (eg. Head of Television) have also left. A birdy with told […]
Where did ArtStart go?
On Saturday, Mr Garrett officially launched the ALP’s arts policy. But ArtStart suddenly disappeared from the official speeches and the press releases approved by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd’s office, writes Nicholas Pickard.
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