Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades
Why are Australia's unemployment payments so inadequate? Experts say they have been deteriorating for decades
The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee says Australia's unemployment benefits are woefully inadequate, and Australia sticks out internationally.
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.
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.
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.
Because we make national sport out of kicking the shit out of people doing it rough. You will serve or you will die, citizen
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.
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.
I was long term unemployed and the ptsd from what i had to do to survive has made me a wonderful employee. I live in terror of losing my job.
I was absolutely miserable at my previous job but I couldn't go back to being unemployed so I put up with it (while job hunting, which is just as bloody miserable) until I had a total breakdown one day. Now I'm in a much better position and enjoy what I do, but I still have a mortgage on an apartment looming over the rest of my life and losing my job for any reason would make my 10th story balcony look very tempting. It shouldn't feel this way.
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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:
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 classArticle_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.