The concept of a 'Healthy Welfare Card', now renamed as the Cashless Debit Card (CDC),
was a recommendation of the Forrest Review into Employment and Training (Forrest 2014) …

This article aims to contribute to literature on the conceptualisation of 'vulnerability'and its
use by neo-liberal welfare regimes to demean, stigmatize and responsibilize welfare …

Implemented in 2008, the Cape York Welfare Reform (CYWR) initiative aims to address
passive dependence on welfare and commit people in the communities of Aurukun, Coen …

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 …

Conditional welfare, a social policy mechanism in which disadvantaged groups are required
to conform to behavioural changes to receive income support, has become an influential …

Welfare conditionality, where income support payments are tied to prescribed activities or
alternatively good behaviour, has intensified in recent years. The toughest form of …

Income management programs‐which restrict how some recipients of government transfers
can spend these funds‐have operated in Australia since 2007. The nature of the programs …

Abstract The Cape York Welfare Reform (CYWR) initiative aims to reduce 'passive
dependence'on welfare and restore 'positive social norms' to revitalise cultural and social …

Conditional welfare has become a prominent policy tool in recent years. One of the harshest
forms of conditional welfare in Australia is arguably compulsory income management (CIM) …

• Evaluations of these programs which have used rigorous approaches including
longitudinal data collection, and the use of comparison sites, have not been able to identify …