TY - Briefing paper AU - Peter Whiteford PY - 2017 T1 - Social security and welfare spending in Australia: assessing long-term trends PB - Tax and Transfer Policy Institute DO - https://doi.org/APO-98761 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/98761 AB - This brief draws mainly on OECD data from 1980-2014 and on Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data about social security payments to households. ER -