Those elements of activity testing described as ‘mutual obligation’ are becoming increasingly important in social security policy towards unemployed people. In order to provide more information about public attitudes to this policy, the SPRC included a set of questions in its survey on...

Social policy is having to adapt to changes in the Australian economy and in Australian society more generally. The role of the state is receding and expectations of what it can achieve are being lowered at a time when the economy is generating increased material prosperity combined with growing...

This paper reports on the analysis from the 1998 Customer Participation Survey of FaCS Customers. These findings are valuable in providing a baseline understanding of patterns of customer participation prior to the release of the McClure report and announcement of the AWT package.The key finding...