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Closing the Gap is failing. Is it time we do away with it altogether?
By ELISE KLEIN Every year, the Productivity Commission reports on the progress State and Federal governments are making towards closing the gap in the gross inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives. Every year, these governments fail. For many indicators, the gap actually gets worse. This year is no exception. The new data show just four of the 19 targets are being met or are on track to be so.
Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether? Original
Every year, the Productivity Commission reports on the progress state and federal governments are making towards closing the gap in the gross inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives. Every year, these governments fail. For many indicators, the gap actually gets worse. This year is no exception. The new data show just four of the 19 targets are being met or are on track to be so.
Opinion | How Australia briefly ended poverty with policy change | Newcastle Herald | Newcastle, NSW
In 2020, the federal government showed it was possible to end poverty in Australia. Subscribe now for unlimited access. or signup to continue reading All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox Interactive Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All articles from the other in your area Overnight, simple policy changes lowered household poverty rates from 67 per cent to 7 per cent for people receiving Jobseeker payments.
Beyond Compensation: Reparations and the Ongoing Colonization of Australia
INTRODUCTION Calls for reparations to address slavery, colonization, genocide and, more recently, climate injustice continue at pace. In the limited cases where reparations have been paid, these are often in the form of pecuniary compensation, awarded by the state or judiciary for exceptional events.
Flash in the pan or eureka moment? What can be learned from Australia's natural experiment with basic income during COVID‐19
Introduction Basic income has long been a policy proposal in search of institutional and social support. While various policy entrepreneurs have advocated for the idea, basic income has failed to win the sustained support of a national government or powerful political constituency.
Care is in everything we do and everything we are
This article is a reprint from The Conversation published on March 19, 2024 10.20am AEDT. To read the original piece please see here. It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society. But less appreciated is that Indigenous women do larger amounts of unpaid care than any other group.
‘Care is in everything we do and everything we are’: the work of Indigenous women needs to be valued
To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions, writes Elise Klein, Chay Brown, Janet Hunt, from Australian National University; Kayla Glynn-Braun, Indigenous Knowledge, and Zoe Staines, The University of Queensland in this article republished from The Conversation. It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society.
‘Care is in everything we do and everything we are’: the work of Indigenous women needs to be valued
It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society. But less appreciated is that Indigenous women do larger amounts of unpaid care than any other group. Working with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner’s office, we worked with more than 100 Indigenous women across Australia to talk about their interpretations and experiences of care.
The relevance of basic numerical skills for fraction processing: evidence from cross-sectional data.
Article Dans Une Revue PLoS ONE Année : 2023 The relevance of basic numerical skills for fraction processing: evidence from cross-sectional data. Fichier principal Wortha Klein et al 2023.pdf (509.26 Ko) Télécharger le fichier Origine : Publication financée par une institution Licence : CC BY - Paternité halshs-03961200 , version 1 (20-12-2023) HAL Id : halshs-03961200 , version 1 Silke Wortha, Elise Klein, Katharina Lambert, Tanja Dackermann, Korbinian Moeller.
Podcast: The economy and our future
Budgets are a central tool of government, offering not just economic policy but defining social and environmental policies for the years ahead. The 2023 budget moves in “the direction of fairness,” but is it moving fast enough? In this episode, we speak to Professor Paul Burke and Associate Professor Elise Klein about the impact of the budget priorities on peoples’ daily lives, the values that underlie it, and unpacking the choices that have been made.
Challenges in Understanding Numerical Learning: Editorial for Brain Sciences Special Issue “Neurocognitive Signatures of Math (Learning) across the Lifespan and Their Interrelation with Other Aspects of Cognition and Emotion”
Open AccessEditorial by Elise Klein 1,2,†, Laura Zamarian 3,† and Liane Kaufmann 4,* 1 CNRS, LaPsyDÉ, Université Paris Cité, La Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, France 2 Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany 3 Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 4 Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. † These authors contributed equally to this work. Brain Sci.
The relevance of basic numerical skills for fraction processing: Evidence from cross-sectional data
PLOS ONE, Jan 2023 This is a preview of a remote PDF: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281241&type=printable Silke M. Wortha, Elise Klein, Katharina Lambert, Tanja Dackermann, Korbinian Moeller. , PLOS ONE, 2023, Volume 18, Issue 1, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281241
The relevance of basic numerical skills for fraction processing: Evidence from cross-sectional data
Basic numerical skills. A battery to assess different basic numerical skills was administered including eight subtests to be completed in the following order: i) addition, ii) subtraction, iii) multiplication, iv) number line estimation, v) approximate arithmetic, vi) conceptual knowledge about arithmetic principles, vii) non-symbolic magnitude comparison, and viii) basic geometry. All subtests had a time limit to assess the level of automatization and because of test economy.
Changes in the superior longitudinal fasciculus and anterior thalamic radiation in the left brain are associated with developmental dyscalculia
1. Introduction Developmental dyscalculia (DD or mathematical learning disability) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that negatively affects learning of numerical concepts and operations despite normal intellectual functioning and sufficient age-appropriate education (Butterworth, 2004; Shalev, 2004; American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
Has Labor learnt from the failure of the cashless debit card?
Sat Aug 6 Written by Elise Klein, Associate professor, Australian National University Legislation passed through the House of Representatives last night to wind down the cashless debit card (CDC), which was introduced into the East Kimberley and Ceduna in 2016 and since applied at other trial sites around Australia. The card compulsorily quarantines 80% of social security payments received by working-aged people. Implementing the CDC has cost more than $170 million.
Has Labor learnt from the failure of the cashless debit card? Original
Legislation passed through the House of Representatives last night to wind down the cashless debit card (CDC), which was introduced into the East Kimberley and Ceduna in 2016 and since applied at other trial sites around Australia. The card compulsorily quarantines 80% of social security payments received by working-aged people. Implementing the CDC has cost more than $170 million. Yet research shows it does more harm than good to people forced to use it.
Podcast: Women and the social security system
On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, Elise Klein from The Australian National University and Kay Cook from Swinburne University join us to discuss how to improve Australia’s social security system, especially how it serves women. Is Australia’s social security system serving women in the way it should be? How is care valued within the system? And what policy responses are needed to ensure it’s improving people’s lives rather than doing harm?
Top five episodes of Policy Forum Pod in 2021
What conversations mattered most to you in 2021? To get rolling in 2022, we look back at your favourite Policy Forum Pod episodes from the last 12 months. 2021 was a big year for Policy Forum Pod, with hosts Sharon Bessell and Arnagretta Hunter taking the reins full time. We covered plenty of ground across 44 episodes, with mini-series on Indigenous wellbeing, leadership, work, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, plus a whole range of regular episodes.
To enable healing, there's a more effective way to Close the Gap in employment in remote Australia
Talk of healing, care, and well-being is woven throughout the refreshed Closing the Gap agreement. These things were also central to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of the Closing the Gap implementation package this week. As part of the package, the government launched a redress scheme to support “intergenerational healing”, though this was really in response to a class action by survivors of the Stolen Generations.
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom
Abstract Across the political spectrum of different historical periods, welfare deterrence has shaped social security and immigration policy in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Deterrence discourages access to state welfare through the production and mobilization of negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support, and by crafting public affect (of fear and disgust) about these target populations in order to garner consent for punitive policies.
What happens when you free unemployed Australians from 'mutual obligations' and boost their benefits? We just found out
During COVID-19 the government ran what turned out to be a giant real-world experiment into what happens when you boost someone’s unemployment benefits and free them of the “mutual obligation” to apply for jobs. On April 27 2020 the government as good as doubled the $565.70 per fortnight JobSeeker payment, lifting it by $550[1] per fortnight for what turned out to be six months. In September the boost dropped to $250[2] per fortnight, and in December to $150[3] per fortnight.
What happens when you free unemployed Australians from 'mutual obligations' and boost their benefits? We just found out
During COVID-19 the government ran what turned out to be a giant real-world experiment into what happens when you boost someone’s unemployment benefits and free them of the “mutual obligation” to apply for jobs. On April 27 2020 the government as good as doubled the $565.70 per fortnight JobSeeker payment, lifting it by $550 per fortnight for what turned out to be six months. In September the boost dropped to $250 per fortnight, and in December to $150 per fortnight.
Social security and time use during COVID-19
Description The base rates of Australia’s working-age social security payments are below the poverty line, and have been for some time. Additionally, people who receive payments are often required to undertake various ‘mutual obligations’ such as 'Work for the Dole.' In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Government introduced a $550 per fortnight Coronavirus Supplement (‘the Supplement’) from 27 April 2020 for a period of six months and temporarily suspended mutual obligations.
What happens when you free unemployed Australians from 'mutual obligations' and boost their benefits? We just found out
During COVID-19 the government ran what turned out to be a giant real-world experiment into what happens when you boost someone’s unemployment benefits and free them of the “mutual obligation” to apply for jobs. On April 27 2020 the government as good as doubled the $565.70 per fortnight JobSeeker payment, lifting it by $550 per fortnight for what turned out to be six months. In September the boost dropped to $250 per fortnight, and in December to $150 per fortnight.
Who's really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card
The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart last night. Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end.
Who's really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card
Fri Dec 11 Written by Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart on Wednesday night. Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end. Yet in the final Senate vote, it was revealed that Centre Alliance had reached an understanding with the government.
Opinion: Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card
The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart on Wednesday night. Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end.
Who's really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card
The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart last night. Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end.
Why is the government trying to make the cashless debit card permanent? Research shows it does not work
Dystopic policy in Australia is often hidden in plain sight. As Curtin University Professor Suvendrini Perera has written, systematic failures are not necessarily “spectacular acts” but the “decisions and indecisions of bureaucratic oversights and misplaced assumptions”. And these amount to a “slow violence” over time. Read more: Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years.
Meet the Liveable Income Guarantee: a budget-ready proposal that would prevent unemployment benefits falling off a cliff
The economic crises that have punctuated the 21st century, most notably the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 crisis, have led to a growing realisation that alternatives to our present system are possible and perhaps inevitable. In particular, there has been an erosion of the belief that the economy is able to provide a decent income to everyone who wants to work.
Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years. COVID-19 is our big chance to change this
Australia is facing one of its biggest crises in unemployment since the Great Depression, and yet already, extra COVID-19 supports to the unemployed are being wound back. From today, the conditions around JobSeeker payment will get tougher for all job seekers, apart from those in Victoria. Come Christmas time, it’s possible people on the unemployment payment could be back to a meagre $40-a-day payment.
Australia has been stigmatising unemployed people for almost 100 years. COVID-19 is our big chance to change this
Australia is facing one of its biggest crises in unemployment since the Great Depression, and yet already, extra COVID-19 supports to the unemployed are being wound back. From today, the conditions around JobSeeker payment will get tougher for all job seekers, apart from those in Victoria. Come Christmas time, it’s possible people on the unemployment payment could be back to a meagre $40-a-day payment.
Forget JobSeeker. In our post-COVID economy, Australia needs a 'liveable income guarantee' instead
There are now less than three months to go before the expanded JobSeeker payment is due to end. As a result, there is a growing political debate about what should happen to the unemployment payment that was roughly doubled in April.
After Robodebt, it's time to address ParentsNext
Robodebt isn’t the only measure the government should consider withdrawing. Late last Friday, after a long press conference from the prime minister which avoided any mention of the topic, the government conceded all points on its so-called “robodebt” formula for alleging welfare recipients have been overpaid. It’ll refund all of the A$721 million collected including interest charged and collection fees charged. The 470,000 Australians affected have yet to receive an apology or damages.
There's mounting evidence against cashless debit cards, but the government is ploughing on regardless
It would be nice if the “facts” being thrown around in the debate over the Cashless Debit Card were peer-reviewed, or even just evidence-based. Instead, there are anecdotes[1]. And it’s these that are being used to justify the government’s decision to spend A$128.8 million[2] over four years continuing the existing trial of the cashless debit card in five sites in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia and extending it to Cape York and all of the Northern Territory.
After Robodebt, it's time to address ParentsNext
Robodebt isn’t the only measure the government should consider withdrawing. Late last Friday, after a long press conference from the prime minister which avoided any mention of the topic, the government conceded all points[1] on its so-called “robodebt” formula for alleging welfare recipients have been overpaid. It’ll refund all of the A$721 million collected including interest charged and collection fees charged. The 470,000 Australians affected have yet to receive an apology[2] or damages.
“Moved on”? An exploratory study of the Cashless Debit Card and Indigenous mobility
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Eve Vincent Corresponding Author E-mail address: eve.vincent@mq.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6913-124X Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia Correspondence Eve Vincent, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Email: eve.vincent@mq.edu.au Search for more papers by this author PDF PDF Share Get access to the full version of this article.View access options below. If you have previously obtained access with your personal account, Please log in.
There's mounting evidence against cashless debit cards, but the government is ploughing on regardless
It would be nice if the “facts” being thrown around in the debate over the Cashless Debit Card were peer-reviewed, or even just evidence-based. Instead, there are anecdotes. And it’s these that are being used to justify the government’s decision to spend A$128.8 million over four years continuing the existing trial of the cashless debit card in five sites in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia and extending it to Cape York and all of the Northern Territory.
There's mounting evidence against cashless debit cards, but the government is ploughing on regardless
It would be nice if the “facts” being thrown around in the debate over the Cashless Debit Card were peer-reviewed, or even just evidence-based. Instead, there are anecdotes. And it’s these that are being used to justify the government’s decision to spend A$128.8 million over four years continuing the existing trial of the cashless debit card in five sites in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia and extending it to Cape York and all of the Northern Territory.
Basic Income, Not Tied Benefits, for Australia’s First Nations
By Elise Klein, originally published by Open Democracy October 22, 2019 Elise Klein is a researcher and activist in Australia. Beyond Trafficking and Slavery caught up with her at the 19th Global Basic Income Congress in Hyderabad, India, to chat about her new research into the effects of Australian welfare policy on First Nations people. Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: What is the current thinking on basic income in Australia?
The micropolitics of behavioural interventions: a new materialist analysis
Article First Online: 23 April 2019 Abstract Behavioural approaches are increasingly used in both the global North and South as means to effect government policy. These interventions aim to encourage preferred behaviours by subtly shaping choices, applying incentives or employing punitive measures. Recent digital technology developments extend the reach of these behavioural approaches.
Universal basic income should be seen as a rightful share of society's wealth
A universal basic income (UBI) is a simple idea: a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement. Scholars, activists, and politicians are increasingly becoming aware of the radical potential a UBI could have for societies around the world: from economic security, fairer wealth distribution, justice and poverty eradication and gender equality. However for a simple idea, the UBI has created a lot of confusion lately.
As costs mount, the government should abandon the Cashless Debit Card
A Senate inquiry has recommended that trials of the Cashless Debit Card be continued and expanded to new sites in other states next year. This is despite Labor and Greens senators providing separate dissenting reports that rejected the recommendation that legislation for the bill should pass. The majority report’s proposal dramatically contrasts with most of the submissions accepted by the inquiry raising significant concerns and arguing against the trials.
The Cashless Debit Card causes social and economic harm - so why trial it again?
The federal government’s Cashless Debit Card trials in the East Kimberley and Ceduna were recently extended. In the space of a day, the government not only released the limited evaluation of the trial, but used this to justify its extension. The extension is puzzling given that the trial has led to further economic and social harm among people compulsorily included. Background to the card The card compulsorily quarantines 80% of a person’s welfare benefits.
Look up: How policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs
This week, the ABC has featured stories of Indigenous innovation, creativity and boldness that are all too often overlooked. These have included Aunty Pearl Slater teaching art and checking in with new mums and their newborns; Miranda Edwards running a childcare service aiming to give the best early education to Indigenous kids; and Sandra Anderson leading Bremer State High to listen properly to their students' families about what's needed to provide meaningful education.
how policy gaps and failure blind us to what's going on in Indigenous affairs
This week, the ABC has featured stories of Indigenous innovation, creativity and boldness that are all too often overlooked. These have included Aunty Pearl Slater teaching art and checking in with new mums and their newborns; Miranda Edwards running a childcare service aiming to give the best early education to Indigenous kids; and Sandra Anderson leading Bremer State High to listen properly to their students’ families about what’s needed to provide meaningful education.
FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia?
The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9.35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email. We sat down with the Productivity Commission. We looked at the Indigenous space. $30 billion is spent in this space annually. $30 billion on 500,000 people and you still see the problems you get to see.
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