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Basic Income in Australia: Implementation Challenges

In: Implementing a Basic Income in Australia

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  • Greg Marston

    (University of Queensland)

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This chapter explores some of the barriers to a basic income (BI) gaining greater policy traction, some of which relates to the highly targeted nature of the social security system in Australia. BI is often represented by critics as an expensive and unnecessary transfer payment that goes to ‘people that don’t need welfare’, which makes it difficult to break from the cultural hegemony of the paid work ethic as the foundation of social citizenship in Australia. The case for change must be built on ideas that seek to transform the present, supported by a broad-based social movement.

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  • Greg Marston, 2019. "Basic Income in Australia: Implementation Challenges," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Elise Klein & Jennifer Mays & Tim Dunlop (ed.), Implementing a Basic Income in Australia, chapter 2, pages 23-43, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-030-14378-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7_2
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