Because we make national sport out of kicking the shit out of people doing it rough. You will serve or you will die, citizen
Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades
Submitted 6 months ago by Baku@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because everyone on the sole is lazy. Except when we need assistance in which case we’re just a battler needing help, but everyone else is lazy.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Love this line:
“For some reason, it released the report on the Friday between Anzac Day and the weekend, so it didn’t get much media coverage.”
Can’t be seen helping poor people. Can’t admit you’re not helping them either.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 6 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hey @rikudou@lemmings.world, the bot seems to be having some difficulties with correctly parsing articles from the ABC. It’s been doing it on a fair few posts (see below examples as well). As far as I can tell, it’s only occuring on articles from the ABC and I’m not entirely sure what’s causing it.
Other examples:
rikudou@lemmings.world 6 months ago
Thanks for the report! It’s fixed now.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It looks like ABC must have changed the internal layout of their pages for whatever reason. It seems like the bot is just selecting the first block quote as the entire article.
On The Register for example it selects the div with the id
#body. For ABC it seems that it looks for the idArticle_Bodywhich I can’t find on that article. I might have a closer look later if I’ve got some time and try to get a PR in if it doesn’t get fixed.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I remember during covid I thought one silver lining type thing would be many many more people having to experience the shitty way the Australian government treats unemployed people who need help. Of course they got around this by temporarily changing it, which to me was a stark admission that it was totally inadequate in the first place.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Not only did they temporarily change the payment but they also made it super easy to access, to the extent that many people who were effectively out of work just continued to be paid by their employer automatically as if nothing had happened. Even the genuinely unemployed people who didn’t have a job to go back to never had to deal with Centrelink, job providers or mutual obligations in a normal way. Everything was streamlined and very little was expected of people. No one learned anything from that experience.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes exactly it’s extremely frustrating. Everyone just forgot because it was ok for them when they needed help. If the system was actually working properly it wouldn’t require any changes for an event like covid.