Australian Government Making It "EASIER" for Welfare Recipients
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 04/11/2020

Australia’s welfare system has been described as “punitive”, “cruel”, and “damaging”. Unfortunately over the last six months, there have been an unprecedented number of Australians needing welfare assistance from the Government thanks to the lock downs and so on. To rub salt in the wound, the Minister for Families and Social Services Anne Ruston revealed last week in a Senate Estimates hearing that the Government does not use a definition of poverty. She said, “The Government doesn't have a measure of poverty, which has been the practice of successive governments, because our payments system is very comprehensive and specifically targeted towards providing the policy outcomes that are defined by the particular support measures blah blah blah”. Basically that’s code for, “If the Australian Government don’t measure poverty, then perhaps it doesn’t exist?”, or more strongly, “Australia doesn’t have a poverty problem because the Australian Government say so”. Of course, critics have jumped on this and said that “Australia's welfare strategy has become more about deterring recipients and feeding bureaucracy than providing support”. In this video, I walk through an example letter that shows just how complicated the Australia welfare system can be for recipients. The ostensible goal of this is to make things EASIER for recipients. What I’ve learnt from reading this letter is that the Australian welfare system, is bulls**t!

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