Changes to Australian income support settings during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper summarises the major changes made to unemployment, student and parenting transfer payments over 2020 and early 2021 in Australia in response to...

Rehabilitating L.W. Sumner's 'Happiness Theory of Welfare' – Part 1: Sumner's welfare theoretic system

In philosophy, theories of welfare’s nature abound. One of these is Canadian moral philosopher L.W. Sumner’s (subjective) ‘happiness theory of welfare’,...

Work til you drop?

The risks of raising the pension age.

Sharing benefits, sharing costs

Who wins and who loses from tax and welfare reform?

A true hindsight of benefit

Is the Australian welfare system unsustainable?