That’s the point of running it so poorly. Add another public service and idiots will thank them for it.
Comment on Long Centrelink wait times as 11 million calls go unanswered
DampSquid@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Centrelink is long overdue to be entirely scrubbed out.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 months ago
Baku@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Seriously. They keep pointing at “dole blushers” and screaming about how much money they’re costing, meanwhile they waste billions on just paying the staff and maintaining the robot systems that “weed out” people who don’t need any assistance (along with thousands who do), while not even getting rid of half of them.
In every system, there comes a point where it’s cheaper to just deal with people exploiting it after the fact, than to invest in systems to prevent those people. And when you factor in the suffering of real people in need, we crossed that point years ago
Centrelink is an absolute blight on the country