IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/etbchp/978-1-137-53532-0_9.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Basic Income for Remote Indigenous Australians: Prospects for a Livelihoods Approach in Neoliberal Times

In: Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand

Author

Listed:
  • Jon Altman

Abstract

In early 2015, the prime minister of Australia delivered the seventh annual Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s report (Australian Government, 2015). In it he reported that the government’s goal to halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and other Australians by 2018 was not on track, a euphemism for failing, and that there was a decline in employment outcomes since the target was set in 2008. The report notes: It is clear that since 2008, no progress has been made against the target to halve the gap in employment outcomes within a decade (by 2018). The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples aged 15–64 years who are employed fell from 53.8 per cent in 2008 to 47.5 per cent in 2012–13. In addition to the fall in Indigenous employment, the proportion of non-Indigenous Australians who are employed rose from 75.0 per cent to 75.6 per cent. Consequently, between 2008 and 2012–13 there has been an increase of 6.9 percentage points in the employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous working age people (up from 21.2 to 28.1 percentage points). (Australian Government, 2015, p. 18) The report highlights variation in employment outcomes by remoteness declining from an employment/population ratio of nearly 50 percent in major cities to just 30 percent in very remote regions.

Suggested Citation

  • Jon Altman, 2016. "Basic Income for Remote Indigenous Australians: Prospects for a Livelihoods Approach in Neoliberal Times," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Jennifer Mays & Greg Marston & John Tomlinson (ed.), Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand, chapter 0, pages 179-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-53532-0_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137535320_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Andrea Rucska & Csilla Lakatos, 2021. "Population Stress Reactions in North-East Hungary during the Pandemic," European Journal of Marketing and Economics Articles, Revistia Research and Publishing, vol. 4, ejme_v4_i.
    2. E. Klein & E. Fouksman, 2022. "Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(1), pages 31-57, January.
    3. Fouksman, E. & Klein, E., 2019. "Radical transformation or technological intervention? Two paths for universal basic income," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 492-500.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-53532-0_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.