By Kim on August 17, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the House of Commons in the aftermath of the English riots set the tone for a bizarre crackdown: Responsibility for crime always lies with the criminal. But crime has a context. And we [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Europe, Featured, International, Law, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Axel bruns, benefits, Blackberry, Boris Johnson, civil disorder, Conservative Party, crackdown, criminal justice, David Cameron, evictions, facebook, Guy Rundle, law and order, London, london burning, Noel Pearson, Owen Hatherley, Race, riots, riots aftermath, sentencing, social exclusion, social housing, social media, social theory, Sociology, Tories, twitter, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2010
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Posted in Economics, Feminism, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged ALP, benefits, casual workers, Coalition, conservatism, employers, esping-andersen, federal minimum wage, Feminism, ideologly, ideology, income inequality, Labor, Liberal Party, parental leave, productivity commission, social policy, Tony Abbott, transfer payments, welfare policy, welfare state, Women, workers |
By Guest Poster on October 1, 2009
From The Australia Institute’s ‘Between the Lines’: The Australia Institute has recommended that the unemployment benefit be increased in line with community standards, which basically means providing for the unemployed as we do our pensioners and disabled. Another way of [...]
Posted in International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged benefits, dole, newstart, OECD, replacement rate, social welfare, The Australia Institute, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
Simon Jackman has the good oil on what Bob Brown and Steve Fielding are putting on the table as Senate deliberations on Kevin Rudd’s fiscal stimulus continue. Both are emphasising the unemployed and job creation (with Brown arguing for green [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Australian Greens, benefits, Bob Brown, Family First, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Henry review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, minor party, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, Senators, social inequality, social policy, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens, unemployed, unemployment, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2009
On the same day the Reserve Bank Board meets after its summer break, Federal Parliament resumes tomorrow. Among the bills which will be considered is one embodying the loosening of penalties on jobseekers who “breach” agreements with employment services providers. [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Poverty | Tagged benefits, Coalition, employment services, federal parliament, Julia Gillard, newstart, nick xenophon, reserve bank, social policy, unemployment, welfare policy |
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