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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Income Tax Cuts and the Macroeconomy
The government’s proposal to reduce personal income taxes announced in the Union Budget 2025 has been met with approval by many commentators in mainstream press and policy circles.
Menon, Rahul
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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 +3 more
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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
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Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach [PDF]
Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate.
Martin Söderström, Bertil Holmlund
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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
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Did corporate tax cuts increase wages
Tax cuts on profits do have immediate effects on income distribution. A reduction in profit taxes boosts the profits on already invested capital without necessarily increasing future investment, thus benefiting private capital while showing little to no ...
Menon, Rahul
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, 2006 Cutting company tax appears to offer the most effective means of spurring economic growth through tax cuts. It should be brought back onto the agenda of public discussion for policy makers and commentators argues Nicholas Gruen.
Nicholas Gruen
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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