Introduction: Implementing a basic income in Australia

摘要: A Basic Income (BI) is a simple idea: a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement (BIEN, What is a basic income? Basic Income Earth Network. https://basicincome.org/basic-income// , 2018). Scholars, activists and politicians are increasingly becoming aware of the radical potential a BI could have to societies around the world: from economic security, fairer wealth distribution, justice and poverty eradication through to degrowth and gender equality (Weeks, The problem with work: Feminism, marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011; Ackerman, Alstott, & Van Parijs, 2006; Standing, A precariat charter: From denizens to citizens. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014; Altman, The Howard government’s Northern Territory intervention: Are neo …