DR SIMONE CASEY

Simone Casey is a Resarch Associate at RMIT and a Senior Policy Advisor – Employment, and previously held a variety of roles in policy advocacy, research and communications where in the employment services and welfare sectors. Simone holds a PhD in employment services is an expert on marketisation, welfare conditionality, labour market program design, unemployment and related social security topics. Her campaigns and reports are underwritten by rigorous analysis and the use of up-to-date evidence and arguments.


2022

What to make of online employment services?

What should we make of Workforce Australia?

2021

It’s Time for a Cross-Disciplinary Conversation About the Effectiveness of Job Seeker Sanctions

2020

Ramping up punitive mechanisms in employment services: Single mothers are the canary in the coalmine

Big little victories: changes to payments suspension in employment services

The ‘Herstory’ of superannuation: Uncovering the discriminatory traps that disadvantage women

Reform of Work for the Dole needed now

Pointless and punitive: why jobactive has to go

Can a leopard change its spots? behavioural drivers and the jobactive system

2019

What is wrong with Work First?

Welfare 'activation' policies are counterproductive

Does tree-shaking work? Evidence based policy and welfare conditionality

What is wrong with Work for the Dole – reciprocity fail

Eligible for what? ParentsNext exemptions and the troubling tale of outsourced social security decision-making

ParentsNext - Activating why? Activating how?

Automating Inequality – the Australian way

New wave conditionality and social supervision