Mutual Obligations ought to help the unemployed find jobs more quickly. New research finds the opposite, and the jobs don’t pay as much.
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what should the budget do for women? Jennifer Westacott (BCA) and Michele O'Neil (ACTU)
Michelle Grattan discusses next week's budget with Business Council CEO Jennifer Westacott, and ACTU president Michele O'Neil
With the end of JobKeeper come changes that will force more people to search for work.
An online survey suggests they found it easier to live, easier to care for their families, and easier to prepare for the world of paid work.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.
A Liberal male staffer masturbating on a female MP’s desk is merely a symptom of something very wrong in the Liberal Party’s attitudes to women, not the sum total of it.
Australia has a long history of making unemployment support contingent on the idea of “deservedness”. JobSeeker rules are an extension of that.
Philosophy can help us see how some of the implicit beliefs we hold about work are mere myths. Success isn’t always due to effort, and the idea some jobs are more shameful to have than others.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon.
The base level of JobSeeker and related payments will increase by $50 a fortnight from April 1 under changes that will also toughen the obligations on people seeking work.
It’s important to get the figures right to know if we are truely out of any recession, or if we need further stimulus to help get more people into work.
Paying out 70% of salary for six months would line us up with much of the rest of the developed world.
Governor Lowe believes the unemployment rate will need to fall well below 5% before inflation climbs to the point where he needs to jack up rates.
Senators have granted a two-year extension to a program for which there is little supporting evidence.
Australia has just run a real-life experiment.
Two-thirds of those surveyed want it linked to wages.
Most Australians get enough to live on in retirement. Some get more they get while working, but 30% get less, and boosting super won’t help them.
The federal government will extend the JobSeeker Coronavirus supplement for an extra three months. The supplement will be at a reduced rate of $150 a fortnight during that period.
At the age of 22, in 2015, 82% of respondents described their mental health as excellent, very good or good. This fell to 70% at the age of 26 in 2019 — a drop of three percentage points per year.
Michelle Grattan discusses the budget with Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Shadow Minister Katy Gallagher
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