The Income Compliance Program (ICP) was a program implemented through Centrelink, the
Australian social security agency. Known colloquially as 'robo-debt', it was an element in a …

This chapter provides a sketch of how the confluence of opportunistic right-wing populist
politics, a shift towards behaviour modification and compliance-focused forms of welfare, a …

The welfare state is generally defined as state-protected minimum standards of income,
health, housing, education and personal social services based on a notion of rights and …

This paper discusses the situation of welfare claimants, often constructed as faulty citizens
and flawed welfare subjects. Many are on the receiving end of complex, multi-layered forms …

This thesis critically explores the lived experience of negotiating and resisting work-related
conditionality and sanctions in Ireland's burgeoning labour activation regime. Post-crisis …

Robodebt describes the automated process of matching the Australian Taxation Office's
income data with social welfare recipients' reports of income to Centrelink. Discrepancies …

Many governments have intensified conditions on social security payments, implementing
new paternalist and neoliberal policy ideals that individualise responsibility for overcoming …

This paper is a discussion of the politics of every day administrative processes in one of the
oldest and most highly institutionalised areas of Australian Commonwealth Government …

More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on the consequences of
income management policies in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study …

This article discusses the situation of income support claimants in Australia, constructed as
faulty citizens and flawed welfare subjects. Many are on the receiving end of complex, multi …