Tag: poverty

Have You Tried Not Being poor?: Cognitive dissonance in twenty-first century social policy

It’s hard not to feel that Labor pursued a cruel strategy of using weasel words to give false hope to welfare recipients for electoral gain.

Care in the Time of COVID

Care has become visible in a new way during the COVID-19 crisis. Its availability and limits have become part of the stakes of the crisis.

Auditing Indigenous Poverty

Jon Altman

30 Jun 2016

A major challenge all political parties face is that Indigenous poverty is deeply embedded and structural and will take a long time, innovative policy and major investments to address. The diversity of Indigenous circumstances means that a diversity of approaches will be required, but the major parties are committed to mainstreaming or normalisation options. It is only the Greens that are serious about the recognition of difference and the need for approaches that emphasise social…

Do NGOs Have a Future? by John Hilary

When NGOs buy into the language of philanthrocapital, there's a problem

This is the Night, Remembered if Outlived

Guy Rundle: Contemporary Society and the Depression 'Epidemic'

Addicted to War

Jospeh Raso The New US Aid Package Fuels Colombia's Counter-Insurgency War