We don’t need more reports, inquiries and surveys. We need the federal government to fix this national disgrace
Losing your job is devastating, whenever it happens. Twelve months ago, before we had even heard of Covid-19, we already had more than 800,000 people hit by unemployment. While trying to find paid work, people were struggling to survive on the grisly Newstart set at just $40 a day. Food had become a discretionary item, with surveys finding almost three quarters of people were skipping meals each week regularly. Teeth went unfixed and hair wasn’t cut. Loneliness and depression grew.
As a nation, we had committed one of our greatest fairness failure, allowing our unemployment payment to become one of the lowest in the developed world. Successive governments ignored or demonised people who were unemployed, blaming them for their own fate.
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