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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tax reform in Brazil: a chance for fiscal justice and sustainability

Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental
The Brazilian government has chosen a reformist approach regarding the raising of public funds. Society is often called upon to bear expenses that exceed its economic capabilities when faced with socioeconomic crises.
Roberto Muhájir Rahnemay Rabbani, Allívia Rouse Carregosa Rabbani, Emilia Rahnemay Kohlman Rabbani, Gabriela Narezi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Short and Long-Term Effects of Environmental Tax Reform [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of an environmental tax reform in a growing economy. A model of endogenous growth based on human capital accumulation is used to numerically simulate the growth effects of different environmental tax reforms and compute their impact on welfare in the short and the long-term.
openaire   +3 more sources

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

A study on the "Porter Hypothesis" effect of the regulatory measures of the environmental protection tax law in the post-pandemic era.

PLoS ONE
The implementation of the Environmental Protection Tax Law was a significant milestone in China's environmental tax reform. The implementation of this law was influenced throughout the three-year period of epidemic prevention and control (from early 2020
Wei Tao, Jian-Ya Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

An Assessment of Japanese Carbon Tax Reform Using the E3MG Econometric Model

The Scientific World Journal, 2012
This paper analyses the potential economic and environmental effects of carbon taxation in Japan using the E3MG model, a global macroeconometric model constructed by the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Econometrics.
Soocheol Lee, Hector Pollitt, Kazuhiro Ueta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of environmental tax reform on industrial green development: evidence from China

Frontiers in Environmental Science
IntroductionThe transformation of environmental protection fees into environmental protection taxes in China reflects a broader commitment to ecological civilization.
Zhaoyang Lu, Diao Gou, Lanqin Yang, Ziyue Wu, Hailong Feng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green tax reforms with promotion of renewable energy sources and carbon capture and sequestration: Comparison of different alternatives

Energy Reports, 2020
The need to decarbonize economic production processes is undeniable and has been considered by most countries worldwide. Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) technologies appear among the most promising routes to the ...
Susana Silva, Isabel Soares, Carlos Pinho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source