My suggestions off the top of my head:
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Abolish mutual obligations - it’s punitive, expensive, and causes significant harm to the most vulnerable while doing little to help people gain employment
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Raise the payment - there have been some very minor increases and fiddling around the edges but the payment is still well below the poverty line
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Bring back the CES - private job providers are worse than useless and have little ability or intention to help the most vulnerable.
shads@lemy.lol 2 days ago
I think the biggest problem facing the welfare system is decades of the Australian public having the recipients demonized as dole bludgers by populist shitbags. Every time I point out to my father that we give far more money in corporate welfare than we invest into people who are down on their luck I get the same tired bootstraps rhetoric. Taking support for aged pensions and family tax supplements out of the equation the actual amount we offer as support to people who can’t get a job through disability or lack of opportunity is an insult. If we taxed corporate entities and people squatting on virtual dragon hordes of property correctly the landscape would change.