Basic income makes basic sense for remote Indigenous Australia

Highly respected expert on Indigenous economies, Jon Altman, of Deakin University, contributes a chapter on an issue he has explored in great depththe role of Universal Basic Income to support remote Indigenous communities. He takes us through the history, explaining how effective policy was worn down and replaced by successive Coalition and Labor governments. The punitive measures now in place are clearly counterproductive. He argues for the re-establishment of Basic Income support for these communities.