• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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        6 months ago

        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.