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  • Stomach churning: Australia’s $316 billion welfare state

    27 Mar 2013

    Policy reforms must be implemented now to ensure that Australia does not experience a welfare-driven European-style financial crisis. Read More

  • ‘Monster’ Disability Scheme to blowout by billions

    15 Nov 2012

    The annual cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is set to blowout by at least $7 billion. Read More

  • What's Next for Welfare to work? IA117

    Jessica Brown | 19 Oct 2009

    Mixed results leave room for more welfare reform “There are more than 100,000 fewer recipients of Parenting Payment Single and Parenting Payment Partnered now than there were in 2006,” says a new... Read More

  • Time to end the churn

    John Humphreys | 07 Oct 2009

    The ‘churn’ of middle-class welfare is costing Australia around $130 billion every year, and could be significantly reduced without cutting welfare to those who need it most, says a new report being... Read More

  • Declaring Dependence, Declaring Independence: Three Essays on the Future of the Welfare State

    Peter Saunders | 16 Jul 2008

    Declaring dependence on, and independence from, the modern welfare state: In a time when governments are running up enormous welfare bills and intrusively regulating everyday life, a series of essays being... Read More

  • A Whiff of Compassion: The Attack on Mutual Obligation

    Peter Saunders | 12 Jun 2008

    RUDD GOVERNMENT MAKING IT MORE ATTRACTIVE TO CLAIM WELFARE: The Rudd government is planning to water down the existing work requirements and mutual obligation policies that have helped unemployed people... Read More