Welfare reform: can we have it all?
My last post consisted of the sort of Sisyphean snark about The Australian that I’d like to cut back on, but can’t resist writing. I was a little taken aback that the same paper that labelled a modest trim to family payments for high-income households as ‘class warfare’ would unashamedly lament that ”the old principle that welfare should exist only for those who genuinely need it appears no longer to hold.”