Welfare reform is to come from the top down, you must lead by example, or cut the crap...

Belly.

Its good to see someone like yourself that takes interest in this blatant piggery some Australians bath in. ( 150.00 per year ) shock!

Its true that some con the system ) As the unemployment rate falls, a growing proportion of the case loads of Job Network (JN) Providers are made up of the very long term unemployed (VLTU). These job seekers are arguably the most difficult to place into employment; facing a multitude of barriers which have become compounded during their period of unemployment.

According to the literature, there is a complex interaction of vocational and non-vocational barriers that impact on VLTU job seekers. Typically these include mental health problems, physical health problems, drug and alcohol abuse, family breakdown, homelessness and social isolation (see, for example Perkins 2005:2). In theory, many of these job seekers are referred into programs specifically aimed at addressing these “non vocational barriers” – like the Personal Support Programme. In practice, because numbers on these programs are limited, or because issues may not be diagnosed/disclosed, many of these harder to place people end up on Job Network caseloads. Certainly anecdotal evidence from across our sector is that the Job Network caseload today includes a high proportion of people with multiple, complex personal issues that impact on their capacity to find or keep work.

See belly, these long-term unemployed cant be put back in the system. What they really should be called, is the victims of society.

They never had a chance and never will.........just ask Tony Abbot.

BLUE

Paid parental leave, on the public purse. Shouldn't it be more like super.

Also belly, the dignity and self-worth I mentioned can only shorten the disparity between the haves and have nots and I think that the amount of money spent by the Government on just the elections its self, ( well! we know how much of that just goes down the drain, don't we ) will help cleaning up Australia and use that to pay double the fort-nightly payments per worker. ( 3 to 6 months work per person and if they spend it unwisely, then it be on their heads, and the Government slips out of the noose ) perfect for all I thinks.

Now that sounds like the FAIR GO AUSTRALIA I've always heard of.

But like in the last post, some will just never be in position for the reasons out-lined.

BLUE

Deep Blue I like your posts, we will clash, it happens, but let me inform you about me.
I finished work three weeks and one day ago.
Had the great honor to be a union official in this country's best union.
And that is my lifetime achievement my proudest thing.
I am chuffed, proud till death I went out as I started fighting an unfair unconnected boss, my own.
16 kids that is how many my parents had, 8 of us grew up.
I will always defend the poor, my childhood was a hungry one.
13 years old was my first full time job, you worked or starved then.
Sorry yes I know very well, some poor beggars are unable ever to find a job.
BUT it is true, drug crops are grown and houses broken in to by some who both get social welfare and never intend to work.
In an other thread I throw rocks at wasted government money funding public servants destroying whole business.
A employment agency, the safety net that replaces welfare,can work but it must pay real wages and not challenge existing jobs.
Keep public servants away from it and get benefits not breed non performers.

Deep-Blue,
I'd like to see a system where the mikks in our midst have to prove their worth before getting handed taxpayers' money.