Implementing a Basic Income in Australia

Elise Klein is a Senior Lecturer of Development Studies at the University of Melbourne. Dr Klein has research projects spanning conditionality in Indigenous policy, psy-expertise in development interventions, women’s economic empowerment and economic rights. She is a life member of the Basic Income Earth Network and has written extensively on issues of Basic Income and economic security. She has advised the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Development and has worked on the Human Rights Committee within the United Nations General Assembly.Jennifer Mays is an academic in the School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology. She is recognized as an international expert on basic income and has a long history in researching, writing and advocating on basic income. She is involved in international research collaborations and symposiums around basic income to progress policy debates on the scheme. She has been committed researching in areas of basic income, poverty, social policy, social justice, disability and social citizenship. She is Co-Coordinator of Basic Income Guarantee Australia (BIGA).Tim Dunlop is a writer, author and academic. He teaches new media at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been involved in a number of new media startups, and has a background in business. He has been a columnist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), as well for News Ltd. He writes on the future of work for The Guardian and speaks regularly in public and professional forums on the same topic. His latest books include Why The Future Is Workless and The Future of Everything: Democracy, Technology and a Life In Common.

• 1. Introduction: Implementing a Basic Income in Australia.- 2. Basic Income in Australia: Implementation Challenges.- 3. Basic Income in the Current Climate: If Australia Can Implement Other Universal Provisions, then Why Not a Basic Income?.- 4. Feminist Approaches to Implementing a Basic Income.- 5. Basic Income and Post-colonial Possibilities: Exploring the Impacts of the Abolition of a Basic Income Program in Remote Indigenous Australia.- 6. Basic Income and Proceeding with Caution.- 7. Framing Matters.- 8. Finding a Political Strategy for a BI in Australia.- 9. Basic or Universal? Pathways for a Universal Basic Income.- 10. Forgetting the Youth? Why a Basic Income for Young People Matters.- 11. Pathways to an Australian Basic Income.- 12. Organised Labour and Basic Income.- 13. Effects of Implementing a BI in Australia.- 14. Promoting Basic Income and Paid Work Policies.- 15. Lessons from the Canadian BI Experience.- 16. Future Strategies for Basic Income