Plan for universal basic income ignores the value of work

Plan for universal basic income ignores the value of work

Richard di Natale addressing the National Press Club on Wednesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen If ever we needed evidence that the Greens don’t expect to be the party of government any time soon, Richard Di Natale’s latest suite of policies provides it. A grab-bag of un-costed ideas, the policy program outlined at the National Press Club on Wednesday would be impossible to implement in government.

While most people were focussed on the proposal to turn the RBA into a retail mortgage-lender, the Greens’ embrace of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) deserves scrutiny.

The UBI is perhaps the most widely supported idea in […]

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