In this post during International Basic Income Week, Tomlinson discusses the merits of a basic income in an Australian context. Tomlinson outlines Australia’s history of means-tested, targeted benefits contingent on claimant worthiness, and he suggests that a possible remedy for Australia’s history of paternalism in social security would be a basic income for all paid above the Henderson poverty line.
John Tomlinson, “Why Basic Income? Why Now?”, The Power to Persuade, 13 September 2015.
