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

9:00am-9:10am

Welcome & Introduction

Assoc Prof Ben Spies-Butcher, ABI Co-Director (Macquarie University)

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)

10:20am-10:40am Break

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)

11:50am-12:10pm Break

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)

1:20pm-1:30pm

Acknowledgements & Close

Dr Troy Henderson, Co-Director ABI Lab (University of Sydney)