The Liveable Income Guarantee – The Missing Link in Social Security?
A webinar organised by the Australian Basic Income Lab and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney on Tuesday September 20. [...]
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The Australian Basic Income Lab organised its inaugural national workshop on Friday 10 December 2021. Hosted by the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Sydney, the workshop focused on the topic of 'Basic Income after COVID-19 – Social Security, Work & Wealth'. Recordings [...]
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The 21st BIEN Congress will be a hybrid event, involving a mixture of online and face-to-face events. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane, Australia in the form of a one-day symposium on Monday 26th September 2022.
BIEN 2022 will be jointly hosted by BIEN [...]
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Scholars, policymakers, advocates and activists are invited to submit abstracts for papers related to one or more of the thematic areas outlined below for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) 2020 conference in Brisbane (Monday 28 to Wednesday 30 September 2020). Abstracts (250–300 words) [...]
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There’s nothing unusual about employers monitoring their employees, in an age-old effort to extract maximum effort and productivity from their paid staff. But new technologies – such as CCTV cameras, GPS locator chips, and computer and social media monitoring – are making this monitoring [...]
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2018 Henderson Conference
The 2018 Henderson conference will focus on how the social security system can more effectively respond to issues of poverty and inequality. Over the course of two days, a variety of speakers will cover what key changes have taken place since the 1970s and the [...]0176
Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
Presentation by Karl Widerquist, Associate Professor of political philosophy at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University
Before public lecture on ‘Why we need a universal basic income’ – [...]
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Basic Income is an audacious idea – a regular, unconditional cash grant for everyone as a right of citizenship. Yet, growing numbers of people have come to support it, believing not only that welfare systems around the world are too stingy but also that they’re based on an entirely [...]
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