The NSW Parliamentary Research Service has published the latest unemployment and JobSeeker estimates for all NSW electorates (September 2023).

The number of unemployment benefit recipients who remained on the unemployment benefit long-term (for two or more years) has climbed from 150,000 to nearly half a million between 2006 and early 2023. Does such a steep rise reflect a growing culture of benefit dependency in...

Over many years, the Commonwealth Ombudsman (the Ombudsman), Inspector-General of Taxation/Taxation Ombudsman (IGTO) and other oversight agencies have made observations and recommendations on best practices for telling people they have a debt to repay and working with them to arrange repayment of the debt. While...

In conducting this inquiry, the Senate Community Affairs References Committee was determined to investigate the structural drivers of poverty, the most significant impacts, which cohorts are most at risk, and what could be done to reduce poverty across Australia.

The authors of this paper argue that New Zealand's social assistance system does not meet the needs of people experiencing persistent disadvantage. They suggest that the government should introduce a deliberate strategy of using a people-centred, devolved approach to address persistent disadvantage.