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The government’s new “investment” approach to welfare, launched today by Social Services Minister Christian Porter, will aim to target “high risk” groups of young carers, students, and single parents by encouraging them to return to the workforce.
These groups, while only a percentage of those on welfare, cost nearly $7 billion of the government’s total $160 billion spent on welfare each year.
The model is based on similar reforms in New Zealand which show mixed results. Will this program motivate people to find work or does it further demonise the most vulnerable sections of our society?
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