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Not Looking for Work: The Rise of Non-Jobseekers on Unemployment Benefits

Andrew Baker · July 31, 2013 · PM136

Following the global financial crisis, the incumbent Labor government introduced policies that reduced the job search requirements for people on …
Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State

Andrew Baker · March 27, 2013 · T30.02

In 2010–11, Australia’s welfare state, which includes health, education, and welfare accounted for approximately $316 billion in government expenditure. Approximately …
Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012

Andrew Baker · January 25, 2013

Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012
The New Leviathan: A National Disability Insurance Scheme

Andrew Baker · November 15, 2012 · PM131

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been touted as the biggest and most expensive social reform since Medicare. The …
Submission to the COAG Select Council on Disability Reform on NDIS ‘eligibility and reasonable and necessary support’ criteria

Andrew Baker · September 10, 2012

Submission to the COAG Select Council on Disability Reform on NDIS ‘eligibility and reasonable and necessary support’ criteria.
Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee

Andrew Baker · September 10, 2012

Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee

Voluntary student unionism
Andrew Baker · September 27, 2013

Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) was briefly back on the agenda this week, before the Prime Minister Tony Abbott poured cold …
Senate reform and the political class
Andrew Baker · September 13, 2013

An ABC interview with one of Victoria's potential new senators, the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party's Ricky Muir, summed up the …
Collapse in youth participation rate
Andrew Baker · August 30, 2013

Australian Bureau of Statistics bragging A review of the Minister's claim by the website Politifact Not Looking for Work Andrew …
Not looking for work
Andrew Baker · August 2, 2013

At present there are around 760,000 people on unemployment benefits like Newstart Allowance (NSA) and Youth Allowance (other); but only …
Fiddling with criteria to hide unemployed
Andrew Baker · July 31, 2013

During recessions and financial crises, governments have a habit of manipulating unemployment figures to make the unemployment rate appear to …
The cancer of government advertising strikes back
Andrew Baker · July 26, 2013

According to our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, government advertising is a 'cancer on democracy,' but when an election is on …
Policy conflict on jobs for disabled
Andrew Baker · July 22, 2013
From parenting payment to prostitution?
Andrew Baker · July 12, 2013

News stories are emerging that the government's reforms to parenting payments have seen single mothers turn to sex work to …
The contemptuous political class
Andrew Baker · June 28, 2013

The political class has contemptuous attitude towards the Australian public. And I am not talking about our new Prime Minister. …
Education about the surveillance state
Andrew Baker · June 14, 2013

To paraphrase George Orwell, do we now sleep safely in our beds only because computer nerds stand ready to intercept …

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