📢OUT NOW: Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand More Harm than Good?
By @GregMarston8, Louise Humpage, @MichPeterie , Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld and @Zoettes
https://t.co/wJ3r1KNTUE
Thank you @AusJPolSci for this honour. Our paper 'Is Conditional Welfare an Effective Means for Reducing Alcohol and Drug Abuse?' (led by Philip Mendes @Monash_SocialWk) has won the annual Mayer Journal Article Prize for the best article published in the journal in 2021 @AusPSA
Yesterday, colleagues @GregMarston8, Philip Mendes & Shelley Bielefeld presented evidence from our @CIM_Study research on the #BasicsCard & the #CashlessDebitCard to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee.
Read their testimonies here: https://t.co/6XbquGdFkd
Professor Greg Marston says at the senate hearing on Labor's proposed legislation that will remove the Cashless Debit Card, but could leave people in the NT on the BasicsCard:
The design principle that is problematic on the CDC is the same as the BasicsCard - both cause problems
At the Senate inquiry hearing, Dr Bielefeld says she has "grave concerns about people in the NT going back on the mandatory BasicsCard which is just as unjust as the Cashless Debit Card. People want autonomy and control over their lives."
The latest article from our team is now out in Critical Social Policy
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand https://t.co/DyAJvhTHOO @GregMarston8@Zoettes@MichPeterie@AustSoc
The latest article from our @CIM_Study is out in Critical Social Policy. We show that Money Management (NZ's version of the #CDC) does not build financial capability as claimed. Rather, it can be counterproductive in this respect https://t.co/iJqT5fsqck @GregMarston8@Zoettes
Drawing on first-hand accounts from those living under the systems, this book explores the impact of #Australia and #NZ income management policies and asks whether they have caused more harm than good. #Income@Zoettes@MichPeterie
https://t.co/flr2N50vh4
Apparently book selfies are a thing?
This is the best I could do… the book speaks for itself — #cashlesswelfare does more harm than good.
(My daughter’s 🌈 in the background speaks of new horizons with #Labor’s commitment to abolish the #CDC 👏 ) @CIM_Study
The book from our study - Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good - comes out this month!
Available at https://t.co/wJ3r1KNTUE
Exciting delivery in the mail today! The timing of this book - coming out just as Australia moves to abandon its wildly unsuccessful experiment in welfare quarantining - feels particularly sweet.
Launch details to come.
https://t.co/r1sRqGoac5 #cashlessdebitcard
COMING SOON: Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? By Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, @MichPeterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld and @Zoettes
Details and pre-order: https://t.co/wJ3r1KvKGw
Our @CIM_Study findings are reported in the Australian today
“Child welfare issues are nuanced & multi-factorial, & frequently exist in a broader context of … disadvantage [...] Crude coercive measures like CIM are woefully ill-equipped to address them" https://t.co/SHTEyFth7J
Our research is discussed in the Australian today @StevenHWRoche @MichPeterie@Zoettes
We found that welfare quarantining has "limited verifiable effectiveness in enhancing child wellbeing and reducing children’s exposure to harm"
https://t.co/AgxsGVFEjO
Gratifying to see two of our @CIM_Study publications discussed in this Select Committee report
The Committee's first recommendation is that the Gov of SA consider "requesting the Government of Australia wind-up the #CashlessDebitCard scheme in the #Ceduna region by 31 Dec 2022"
The Report of the Select Committee on Poverty in SA was tabled last month. Wonderful to see our Hidden Costs report and our AJSI article on compulsory income management and homelessness extensively cited
https://t.co/kvsqEBy6TC @gregmarston1@MichPeterie@Zoettes @StevenHWRoche
The latest article from our @CIM_Study - expertly led by @StevenHWRoche - is now out!
We find that Compulsory Income Management measures are poorly suited to addressing the needs of children, as they fail to influence the structural factors that most impact their wellbeing.