AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN
May Cost £60,000,000 Yearly FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE (Received December 3, 11.45 p.m.) CANBERRA, December 3. . Australia has its equivalent of Britain’s Beveridge plan for social security. It is stated to envisage a scale or benefits more generous than the British scheme and it may cost the .Government up t'o £60,000,000 a year. Some Ministers are reported to be opposed to. waiting till after the war to put the plan into .operation. “Me should have a social charter as soon as possible that will give the people something to fight for,” a Minister today told the Sydney “Suu” political correspondent. . . A Government spokesman said today that the aim of the Australian scheme was to provide economic security from the cradle to the grave. He claimed that it was far ahead of the Beveridge plan. Its basis is reported to be a provision of: Maternity allowances, family allowances, health and unemployment assurance, free hospitals and medical attention (irrespective of income), living allowance on a family basis (probably equal to the basic wage in times of unemploy men t\jand retiring allowances.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 60, 4 December 1942, Page 6
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