Although Western nations have long placed conditions on access to social security
payments, many of the more recent conditions utilising technological tools have intensified …

More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on the consequences of
income management policies in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study …

The education of children living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) has been a long‐standing
concern for children and their carers, policy‐makers and researchers who have long …

Abstract The former Coalition Commonwealth Government consistently asserted that
representative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter Indigenous) organisations …

This article examines the changes in social security measures introduced by the Australian
government during the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020. These measures were …

This article explores discursive legitimation of intensified conditionality in Australian social
security policy, by the association of responsible consumption with a revised construction of …

Since 2007, income support recipients in the Northern Territory (NT) have been subjected to
compulsory income management (CIM), a form of welfare conditionality which continues …

In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency
on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through …

Prior to the election of the Labor Government in May 2022, consecutive Australian Liberal–
National Coalition Governments argued that local community leaders and organisations …

Throughout the past 25 years, Australian governments have developed increasingly punitive
and coercive approaches to welfare policy. Punitive welfare policy, underpinned by …