Government that ignores evidence sets up welfare policies to fail

Discussing two new reports on the Department of Social Services website, Professor Eva Cox argues in The Conversation (8.10.14): ‘We can only hope the government, which claims to want change, does not continue to fund expensive but ineffective programs. That will lead to cries that ‘nothing works’ in welfare as well as Indigenous policies.

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