Australian Basic Income Lab Fellows Workshop
Event description
We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Australian Basic Income Lab Fellows Workshop. A fantastic line-up of Fellows have offered their time and expertise to present and moderate these panels. Your participation in this Workshop would be most welcome.
Security, Adequacy & Recognition in Australia’s Social Assistance System
ABI Fellows Workshop – 2023
Date: Friday, December 8
Time: 9:00am-1:30pm (AEST)
Format: online (Zoom), 12-minute presentations for 3 speakers & 30 minutes discussion per session.
We appreciate it is a very busy time of year and that you may not be able to attend. We would still encourage you to circulate information regarding the workshop to interested colleagues and friends.
Program
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9:00am-9:10am Welcome & Introduction Assoc Prof Ben Spies-Butcher, ABI Co-Director (Macquarie University) |
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9:10am-10:20am Session I Security: How can we ensure economic security (income as a right) and reduce financial precarity? Speakers Repeat Failure: Why Mutual Obligations are Designed to Fail Maiy Azize (Anglicare Australia) Circumnavigating politics with distributed technology approaches to Basic Income Jessica Chew (Basic Income Australia) Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia? Prof Gaby Ramia (University of Sydney) Moderator: Assoc Prof Ben Spies-Butcher, ABI Co-Director (Macquarie University) |
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10:20am-10:40am Break |
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10:40am-11:50am Session II Adequacy: How do we ensure everyone has 'enough' and address poverty? Speakers Approaches to assessing adequacy in the Report of the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee Prof Peter Whiteford (Australian National University) Income and Wealth Poverty in Australia Dr Hangyoung Lee (Macquarie University) Understanding expertise in poverty Kristin O’Connell (Antipoverty Centre) Moderator: Dr Gareth Bryant (University of Sydney) |
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11:50am-12:10pm Break |
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12:10pm-1:20pm Session III Recognition: How can we value diverse contributions and recognise historical injustices beyond the rewards of the labour and capital markets? Speakers New approaches to participatory income Prof Jane Goodall (Western Sydney University) Caring about care: Indigenous conceptions of care and work Dr Zoe Staines (University of Queensland) & Assoc Prof Elise Klein (Australian National University) Moderator: Prof Alex Broom (University of Sydney) |
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1:20pm-1:30pm Acknowledgements & Close Dr Troy Henderson, Co-Director ABI Lab (University of Sydney) |
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