Simone Casey

Dr Simone Casey is an associate of the RMIT Future Social Services Institute and a volunteer policy advisor with the Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU). Simone currently is with the progressive policy think tank Per Capita.

Opinion: Pointless and punitive — why jobactive has to go

By Simone Casey

Community & Social

My experiences as a ‘job seeker’ reinforce the view that jobactive should be shut down. Here’s a short account of what happened in the four…

Automating inequality, the Australian way

By Simone Casey

Communications & Technology

Austere welfare systems become an impenetrable armoury in the ‘war on the poor’ because they make unseen decisions that determine levels of funding and services.