Posts tagged Budget 2022
Stretching ourselves beyond reason to deliver government savings: a response to the Albanese’s first budget – part 3 
Stretching ourselves beyond reason to deliver government savings: a response to the Albanese’s first budget – part 3 

In the wake of the budget, the Antipoverty Centre asked people on Centrelink payments – the real social policy experts – for their reactions. A contributor shared how he and other carers performing unpaid labour save the government money, and another describes the devastating impact of the failure to raise the JobSeeker rate on welfare recipients.

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Advocacy, Lived experiencePower to Persuadewelfare reform, Budget 2022, Lived/consumer experience, Disability, NDIS, Poverty
Welfare recipients feeling our government would prefer us dead: a response to the Albanese’s first budget – part 2 
Welfare recipients feeling our government would prefer us dead: a response to the Albanese’s first budget – part 2 

In the wake of the budget, the Antipoverty Centre asked people on Centrelink payments – the real social policy experts – for their reactions. One said “This budget is democide. This is social murder. They cannot claim ignorance of the deaths that keeping the welfare rate below the poverty line will cause. A number of them have even said during parliament that the rate is far too low to survive on, but when it comes time to change it they chose not to.

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Advocacy, Issues, Lived experience, Policy and governancePower to PersuadeBudget 2022, Lived/consumer experience, Equity, Social Welfare, welfare conditionality, welfare reform, Disadvantage
Health budget 2022 spends a little on favoured interest groups but misses a chance for real reform
Health budget 2022 spends a little on favoured interest groups but misses a chance for real reform

This article by Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, examines Australia’s 2022-23 Budget through a health lens and highlights missed opportunities for the federal government to improve primary care and aged care. It is republished from The Conversation.

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Finance and economicsPower to Persuadehealth, Budget 2022