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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.


Mahatma Gandhi

About CBI Tasmania

Our Mission

Our CBI Projects

Our Mission

Live Well Tasmania (LWT) is a non-profit community group in North-West Tasmania aimed at increasing health and wellbeing and building community capacity and resilience. In 2022 LWT commenced a campaign for a trial for a Community Based Income (CBI) in North-West Tasmania.

The Issues

Our CBI Projects

Our Mission

A CBI aims to address four problems in the short term which both affect individual health and wellbeing and our collective capacity to act:

  1. Unemployment
  2. Poverty, particularly inter-generational poverty, and rising costs of living
  3. A non-fit for purpose welfare system
  4. The lack of work that could be happening in our communities to improve life f

A CBI aims to address four problems in the short term which both affect individual health and wellbeing and our collective capacity to act:

  1. Unemployment
  2. Poverty, particularly inter-generational poverty, and rising costs of living
  3. A non-fit for purpose welfare system
  4. The lack of work that could be happening in our communities to improve life for everyone, including promoting conversations about what we value.

Our CBI Projects

Our CBI Projects

Our CBI Projects

Some examples of community projects that could be achieved via a CBI:

  • Food Security projects – ensuring everyone has access to healthy, food, grown in environmentally friendly ways, and using the power of food for greater social connection and inclusion
  • Helping kids get a better start in life, help them be lifelong learners, help families r

Some examples of community projects that could be achieved via a CBI:

  • Food Security projects – ensuring everyone has access to healthy, food, grown in environmentally friendly ways, and using the power of food for greater social connection and inclusion
  • Helping kids get a better start in life, help them be lifelong learners, help families raise healthy kids
  • Environmental regeneration
  • Easing the housing crisis – connecting up and actively supporting house sharing such as between retiree’s and students, promoting tiny houses

What is CBI?

In essence a CBI is a liveable wage paid to those who provide goods or services deemed to be directly or indirectly of benefit to society, including providing caring services, engaging in education and training, and other activities that increase health and wellbeing. Person-centred care and co-design are key principle’s of this project, such that the community in effect decides how participants are deemed eligible for the income, with a high priority being placed on seeking out and understanding what is important to participants for their health and wellbeing.

There are two main rationale’s for an initial focus on conditional versus an unconditional income, one is that it is likely to be more politically feasible to get support for a conditional income, and secondly that it provides a significant opportunity for community building, for improving our local health and education systems, and collective decision making structures and agency.

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