AUSTRALIA TOO
SOCIAL SECURITY BETTER THAN BRITAIN FAR-REACHING BENEFITS (9 a.m.) CANBERRA, Dec. 4. Australia -has its equivalent of Britain’s Beveridge plan for social security. It is stated to envisage a scale of benefits more generous than the British scheme, and may cost the Government up to £60,000,000 a year. Some Ministers are reported to be opposed to waiting until after the war to put the plan into operation. . “We should have a social charter as soon as possible that will give the people something to fight for,” a Minister told the Sydney Sun political correspondent. The Government spokesman said to-day 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 the -provision of maternity allowances, family allowances, health and unemployment assurance, free hospitals, and medical attention irrespective of income, a living allowance on a family basis, probably equal to the basic wage, in times of unemployment, and retiring allowances.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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