Unemployment Payments



Over the past two years, there has been some progress in improving the JobSeeker payment. But payment levels remain below the poverty line. That’s according… Read More ›

JobSeeker Payments Still Below the Poverty Line, And Here’s Why That Affects Us All

At nearly 500 pages, Rick Morton’s Mean Streak provides a detailed account of the development and collapse of the robodebt scheme, which started in 2014… Read More ›

‘The Social Engineering of Shame’: Rick Morton’s Mean Streak Exposes the Populism Behind the Unlawful Robodebt Scheme

In April this year, the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) published a research note on “The Growth and Distribution of Welfare in Australia”, claiming: Approximately… Read More ›

425 Thousand More People on Welfare? Fact-Checking the Institute for Public Affairs

Link to Part 1 Double-counting Disability Support Pensioners Most importantly, the approach taken in the IPA research note involves a very significant level of double-counting.… Read More ›

425 Thousand More People on Welfare? Fact-Checking the Institute for Public Affairs: Part 2

If we want to ensure those who can work should work, particularly for the people with disability, rights to work through improved employment opportunities should… Read More ›

Disability, Employment and Welfare Reform: Insights From Australia and Denmark

The government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has just published its second report. It was set up by Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services… Read More ›

Budget Forum 2024: JobSeeker Payments Need a Substantial Boost (and Improved Indexation)

Welfare or charity? What is the most effective mechanism for government to directly assist people in poverty to meet their essential needs such as food,… Read More ›

Increasing Government Income Support Directly Reduces the Need for People to Use Charity

If this year’s budget measures are passed by parliament in the current sitting, the government has indicated that the single rate of JobSeeker payment will… Read More ›

Opposition’s JobSeeker Plans Would at First Leave 640,000 Worse off and 168,000 Better off

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