Basic income, not tied benefits, for Australia’s First Nations

| Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: What is the current thinking on basic income in Australia?

Elise Klein: Australia has a long history of activism around basic income, but its current prospects are a bit grim. There is an extraordinary focus on punitive welfare in Australian politics, almost a desperation to continue making benefits conditional at any cost. Given that, the proposition of a basic income that would be unconditional seems rather far away.

White Australia has been set up on the idea that, to be a productive member of society, you have to work. If you’re not working, then […]

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