Doing the 'hard yakka' : implications of Australia's workfare policies for disabled people

Alan Morris; Shaun Wilson; Karen Soldatic

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447318323.003.0001

Doing the 'hard yakka' : implications of Australia's workfare policies for disabled people

Alan Morris, Shaun Wilson, Karen Soldatic

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Abstract

In Australia, almost 19% of the population has a disability (ABS, 2009) and its prevalence will steadily rise with the increase in life-sustaining interventions and an ageing population (AIHW, 2008). The number of Australians receiving the Disability Support Pension (DSP) has grown substantially. In 1990, there were around 316,000 DSP recipients (Yeend, 2011). By the beginning of 2014 there were about 825,000 (Maley, 2014). The proportion of the working-age population claiming the DSP grew from 4.3% to 5.5% between 1994 and 2012 (Maley, 2014). Increasingly, DSP recipients are women, at 43% in 2008, up from 26% in 1990 (ACOSS, 2011). The current cost of the DSP is around AU$15 billion per annum, representing about 21% of the welfare budget (Ireland, 2014).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Disabled People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer?
Editors	Chris Grover, Linda Piggott
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Policy Press
Pages	43-65
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9781447318330
ISBN (Print)	9781447318323
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447318323.003.0001
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

disabilities
employment
social policy

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Doing the 'hard yakka' : implications of Australia's workfare policies for disabled people

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