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, it explores the lived experience of those for whom core welfare benefits and services are dependent on government conceptions of ‘responsible’ behaviour. It analyses whether officially claimed positive intentions and benefits of the schemes are outweighed by negative impacts that deepen the poverty and stigma of marginalised and disadvantaged groups. This novel study considers the future of this form of welfare conditionality and addresses wider questions of fairness and social justice.
| ISBN: | 9781447361497 |
| Publication date: | 16th June 2022 |
| Author: | Greg (The University of Queensland) Marston, Louise (University of Auckland) Humpage, Michelle (The University of Sydn Peterie |
| Publisher: | Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 236 pages |
| Series: | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy |
| Genres: |
Welfare and benefit systems Poverty and precarity |