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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The federal budget: from surplus to deficit [PDF]

Budget ; Fiscal ...
anonymous
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Adults With Intellectual Disability Moving out of the Family Home Using the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Family Members' Planning Experiences

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio, R. Walker, C. Bigby, I. Wiesel, F. Rillotta, C. Hutchinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalized Bailouts and Fiscal Policy: The Consequences of Soft Budget Constraints [PDF]

States have soft budget constraints when they can expect a bailout by the federal government in the event of a financial crisis. This gives rise to incentives for unsound state fiscal policy.
Alexander Fink, Thomas Stratmann
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

When Do Annuity-Based Payments Help to Address the Affordability Challenge of Funding Advanced Therapies? Insights from a Budget Impact Simulation. [PDF]

J Mark Access Health Policy
Van Dyck W, Michelsen S, Veredas D, Huys I, Luyten J, Simoens S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fight Cartels or Control Mergers? On the Optimal Allocation of Enforcement Efforts within Competition Policy [PDF]

This paper deals with the optimal enforcement of the competition law between the merger and anti-cartel policies. We examine the interaction of these two branches of the competition policy given the budget constraint of the competition agency and taking ...
Andreea Cosnita-Langlais, Jean-Philippe Tropeano   +1 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of four tobacco tax policies on tobacco product purchasing patterns across socioeconomic groups. [PDF]

Tob Control
Freitas-Lemos R, Bruckner LE, Xu S, Mason MG, Tegge AN, Stein JS, Sheffer CE, Bickel WK.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Countering the threat [PDF]

Budget ; Inflation (Finance) ; Monetary policy - United ...
William Burke
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