Social Security



We live in strange economic times. Over the last few years, Australian business profits have boomed just as economic growth has trended down to ‘ultra-low’… Read More ›

The Great Fiscal Shift: Inequality, Upwards Redistribution and the Politics of Surplus Since Howard

The roll-out of Universal Credit in the UK continues, and continues to uncover new challenges and problems. The recovery of overpayments – and especially overpayments… Read More ›

Timing It Wrong, Part Two: Universal Credit Inherits Overpayments from Tax Credits

Since parliament has resumed three Liberal members – Dean Smith, Russell Broadbent and Andrew Wallace – have joined a group of Nationals calling for an… Read More ›

Are Most People on the Newstart Unemployment Benefit for a Short or Long Time?

It’s almost a decade since the Henry Review of the tax system recommended an increase in Newstart payments, with new rules designed to help them… Read More ›

Is Newstart Really the Pacesetter Scott Morrison Says It Is?

Earlier this year former prime minister John Howard described Australia’s middle class as the “biggest,” proportionally speaking, in the world. Speaking at the annual dinner… Read More ›

A Snapshot of Life in the Middle Class

The Australian retirement income system has been praised as one of the best in the world. In the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, it was… Read More ›

Better Targeting of Australia’s Age Pension

Jeremy Moore repairs long-haul trucks at a service centre on the interstate highway north of the Ohio town where he lives. Rather than being paid… Read More ›

Expecting the Unexpected

The introduction of Universal Credit has been described as one of the most important social security policy changes in the UK since the Beveridge Report more than… Read More ›

A ‘Fresh Approach to Universal Credit’ – Are There Lessons from Australia?

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