Bruce Bradbury

Dr Bruce Bradbury is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. He is an economist and statistician with research interests including the measurement of living standards, child poverty, child development, income support and labour market policies, consumer equivalence scales, and the geographic dimensions of social policies.

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Website : https://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/bruce-bradbury/


  • How Can More People Be on Unemployment Benefits Than Before COVID, With Fewer Unemployed Australians?, 27 Apr 2022
  • With Low Unemployment, Why JobSeeker Payments Need to Be Increased, 22 Apr 2022
  • The $50 Boost to JobSeeker Will Take Australia’s Payment From the Lowest in the OECD to the Second-Lowest After Greece, 25 Feb 2021
  • Unemployment Support Will Be Slashed by $300 This Week. This Won’t Help People Find Work, 22 Sep 2020
  • If We Want Workers to Stay Home When Sick, We Need Paid Leave for Casuals, 15 May 2020
  • Coronavirus Supplement: Your Guide to the Australian Payments That Will Go to the Extra Million on Welfare, 29 Mar 2020
  • When It Comes to Sick Leave, We’re Not Much Better Prepared for Coronavirus Than the US, 12 Mar 2020
  • Welfare Entry and Exit After Marital Separation Among Australian Mothers, 28 Jan 2019
  • It’s Not Just Newstart. Single Parents Are $271 per Fortnight Worse Off. Labor Needs an Overarching Welfare Review, 05 Dec 2018