Stepping Stones to an Australian Basic Income

Ben Spies-Butcher () and Troy Henderson ()
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Ben Spies-Butcher: Macquarie University
Troy Henderson: University of Sydney

Chapter 9 in Implementing a Basic Income in Australia, 2019, pp 163-178 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores a “stepping stones” approach to Basic Income in the Australian context. It identifies two policy changes that would mark a partial shift away from Australia’s highly means-tested transfer system towards a more universal model of income support. Specifically, we propose a combination of unwinding means-testing for the age pension and gradually lowering the eligibility age with a Youth Basic Income paid to those aged 20–24 based on a modified negative income tax model. We argue together these proposals allow for an alternative to the neoliberal politics of population ageing, addressing emerging intergenerational inequalities in Australia’s current dualised model.

Keywords: Basic Income; Social policy; Inequality; Universal Basic Income; Intergenerational inequality; Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14378-7_9

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