Social Security



For a brief period when the JobSeeker unemployment benefit was increased to $550 per week and conditionality was relaxed, Australians had access to a type… Read More ›

Has COVID-19 Opened the Door to an Australian Basic Income?

Fiscal sustainability and optimal fiscal policy are central issues to demographic changes. Without reform, studies suggest that the current United States social security system will… Read More ›

Age-Dependent Risk Aversion: Re-Evaluating Fiscal Policy Impact of Population Ageing

The Robodebt class action bought by Gordon Legal has been settled at a cost to the government of around $1.2 billion. According to federal Labor… Read More ›

Robodebt Was a Policy Fiasco With a Human Cost We Have Yet to Fully Appreciate

In Parts 1 and 2, I used three desirable attributes (equity, efficiency and simplicity) of a coherent tax and transfer system to assess the 2020-21… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Getting Coherence into the Equity Debate – Part 3

In putting together his unprecedented pandemic budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg had two big tasks: to support the economy now, and to kick-start the next boom.… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] It’s Not the Size of the Budget Deficit That Counts; It’s How You Use It

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of government in our country over the last several decades has been how politics has been increasingly short-term in its… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] It’s Time to Meet Key Social Policy Challenges in COVID Recovery

The economic crises that have punctuated the 21st century, most notably the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis, have led to a growing realisation… Read More ›

[Budget Forum 2020] Meet the Liveable Income Guarantee, a Budget-Ready Proposal That Would Prevent Unemployment Benefits Falling off a Cliff

The Department of Social Services has confirmed Australia’s pensioners will not receive an automatic indexation increase this September, because inflation has gone backwards. This will… Read More ›

There Will Be No Pension Increase in September for the First Time in 23 Years, but There Is a Simple Fix

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