Basic income could be the way forward

Basic income could be the way forward

Most months, I join at least two Zoom meetings of the Melbourne-based group Basic Income Australia.

The group aims to invoke conditions that would see all Australians granted a liveable wage.

And the group is not alone advocating for such an ideal as more than half of all Australians like the idea and just recently it was endorsed by Anglicare’s national executive director Kasy Chambers.She said it was time Australia introduced a basic income, lifting people above the poverty line.“Last year, many Australians had a form of basic income for the first time. JobSeeker was lifted to the poverty line, mutual […]

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