Andrew Baker

Andrew Baker is Assistant Director, Retail Banking and Currency, at the Commonwealth Treasury. He was formerly a Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies. Before joining the CIS, Andrew worked in a policy research and advisory capacity for several members of the Australian Senate. He has a master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from Monash University.

Not Looking for Work: The Rise of Non-Jobseekers on Unemployment Benefits

Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State

Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012

The New Leviathan: A National Disability Insurance Scheme

Submission to the COAG Select Council on Disability Reform on NDIS ‘eligibility and reasonable and necessary support’ criteria

Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee

Voluntary student unionism

Senate reform and the political class

Collapse in youth participation rate

Not looking for work

Fiddling with criteria to hide unemployed

The cancer of government advertising strikes back

Policy conflict on jobs for disabled

From parenting payment to prostitution?

The contemptuous political class

Education about the surveillance state