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Resisting robo-governance

Welfare reform and Indigeneity in remote Australia: A toxic mix

Land Rights News- Northern Edition, August 2018_cover

Author/s (editor/s):

Jon Altman

Publication year:

2018

Publication type:

Opinion piece

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Land Rights News (August 2018)

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Live sheep exports - not worth the moral cost - Dr Julie Smith writes in The Sudney Morning Herald

Fear and social assistance: How wider social anxieties give way to personified fears

The appropriateness and effectiveness of the objectives, design, implementation and evaluation of the Community Development Program (CDP): A submission to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee

Author/s (editor/s):

Shelley Bielefeld

Publication year:

2017

Publication type:

Government and community sector reports

Key points of the submission:

  1. There are Serious problems with the CDP Program
  2. CDP is a Badly Designed Regulatory System—Evidenced by High Levels of Defiance and Disengagement
  3. Multiple Punitive Welfare Conditionality Programs Can Compound Disadvantage and Create Confusion

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Changes to the Community Development Programme (CDP): A submission to the Community and Economic Development Division, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Author/s (editor/s):

Shelley Bielefeld

Publication year:

2016

Publication type:

Government and community sector reports

The consultation paper asks the following questions:

  1. What elements of the current national Job Seeker Compliance Framework don’t work well for remote job seekers? How could these be improved?
  2. Do the proposed new arrangements balance the need to provide safeguards for job seekers with the objective of having individuals attend activities and take-up work?
  3. Are the proposed new arrangements simple and easy to understand for job seekers?
  4. Will the proposed new arrangements create perverse incentives or lead to unintended consequences?

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Submission to Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee - Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2015

Author/s (editor/s):

Shelley Bielefeld

Publication year:

2016

Publication type:

Government and community sector reports

I welcome the opportunity to make a submission to the Committee on this Bill. I make this submission as an academic with a disciplinary background in law whose research focuses on issues of public policy, social justice, human rights and Indigenous peoples.

My submission will draw attention to several problems with the proposed Bill: 1. The welfare discourse underpinning this Bill perpetuates destructive mythology about the poor. 2. Workfare regimes are inherently problematic and should be abandoned. 3. There are issues with the exercise of review rights. 4. There are issues with working for income managed/quarantined welfare income. 5. There are human rights incompatibility issues with the Bill which make it fundamentally unsuited to a society aspiring to uphold human dignity.

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Will the healthy welfare card be healthy?

Democracy, community and problem solving

Author/s (editor/s):

Braithwaite, John

Publication year:

2000

Publication type:

Conference Paper

Cite the publication as

Braithwaite, John, 2000. 'Democracy, community and problem solving', In _Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered and Family Practice_, edited by Joe Hudson and Gale Burdord, 31-39.

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