Australians back the case for guaranteed basic income

Australians back the case for guaranteed basic income

As the global pandemic raged through Australia in 2020, it brought with it one unexpected positive — many Australians had a form of basic income for the first time.

The doubling of the Jobseeker payment and JobKeeper, which gave security to those Australians with insecure jobs, meant that, for a brief moment, many Australians were lifted above the poverty line.

It was at this point that Anglicare Australia started to ask why, when the benefits were so apparent, shouldn’t Australia strive for this outcome 100 per cent of the time?The organisation commissioned social researchers Ipsos to survey 1,000 Australians with the […]

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