Conditionality in Australia’s welfare state has sustained a significant academic critique, including the critique published in this journal. In this Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Social Issues, we contribute to the existing critical literature on welfare conditionality. This Special Issue aimed to provide empirical scrutiny into welfare reform and conditionality in Australia. The articles extend our understanding of welfare conditionality’s underpinnings and its lived effects. These case studies illuminate the aspects of welfare conditionality that have not received enough attention: the role of technology, the question of mobility, the relationship with housing and the little thought given to the state’s role in mutual obligation. What is clear is that the individualisation of structural problems is not just a theoretical and political misstep ripe for critique, but leads to the formulation of policies that impact marginalised people’s capacity to shape life on their own terms. Through different empirical foci, all papers in this Special Issue demonstrate how welfare conditionality is put forward as a solution to address the consequences of structural disadvantage.

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澳大利亚福利条件特殊问题简介

澳大利亚福利国家的附带条件已经引起了重大的学术批评，包括在本杂志上发表的评论。在《澳大利亚社会问题杂志》的这一期特刊中，我们为有关福利条件的现有批判性文献做出了贡献。本期专刊旨在对澳大利亚的福利改革和附加条件进行实证研究。文章扩展了我们对福利条件性基础的基础及其作用的理解。这些案例研究阐明了福利条件方面尚未得到足够重视的方面：技术的作用，流动性问题，与住房的关系以及对国家在共同义务中的作用的很少考虑。显而易见的是，结构性问题的个体化不仅是批判的成熟的理论和政治失误，而且导致制定了影响边缘化人民以自己的方式塑造生活的能力的政策。通过不同的经验重点，本期特刊中的所有论文都说明了如何提出福利条件作为解决结构性不利后果的解决方案。