Transfer Policy



Social security and household incomes in Australia We can measure reliance on or use of social security using ABS statistics on income distribution. These show… Read More ›

Social Security and Welfare Spending in Australia: Assessing Long-Term Trends Part 3

How many people receive payments? Part 1 in this series looked at how much is spent on social security in Australia and how spending has… Read More ›

Social Security and Welfare Spending in Australia: Assessing Long-Term Trends Part 2

For some time, the largest single component of Commonwealth Government spending in Australia has been “Social Security and Welfare”, estimated at 35.3 per cent of… Read More ›

Social Security and Welfare Spending in Australia: Assessing Long-Term Trends Part 1

This is an edited extract of a Crawford School event with Professor Vito Tanzi, former Director of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department. The event was… Read More ›

Complexity and Inequality in Fiscal Systems: A Conversation Between Vito Tanzi, Stephen Howes, Roger Bradbury, Peter Whiteford and Miranda Stewart

Some of the budget changes on welfare appear to be about sending the message that receiving welfare is undesirable. Whether these changes actually reduce social… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2017: Welfare Changes Stigmatise Recipients and Are Sitting on Shaky Ground

A colleague recently asked me to review a collection of Australasian essays on the universal basic income (UBI). Showing the cross disciplinary interest in UBI,… Read More ›

Basic Welfare: Can We Stop Defending Labour?

Large projected fiscal burdens due to population ageing have caused many countries to increase the access age of their old age pensions. The average pensionable… Read More ›

Means Testing Public Pensions: A Policy Option for an Ageing Population

The financial hardship of poor working families represents a key policy challenge in many countries. Sue Regan interviews Jane Millar, Professor of Social Policy at… Read More ›

An Interview with Professor Jane Millar, OBE

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