Take someone without hope of employment in an area of dying employment, indeed without hope. They are already suicidal. Without mental health services provided to them that could guide them through.
Tell them the gov doesn't give a fuck about them and is going to take away their only means of survival for the next 6 months. Take any hope they have and crush it.
For some just the intention of what the gov was planning to do was enough to drive them over the edge. Their capacity overwhelmed.
This gov has blood on it's hands.
Proposed federal welfare changes had prompted a spike in suicides in Tasmania, according the state's Mental Health Council, while fears existed that homelessness would also rise.
The proposed changes would force jobseekers to apply for 40 jobs a month and would prevent unemployed people aged under 30 from accessing benefits for six months.
Tasmania already had the highest suicide rate in Australia after the Northern Territory.
The council's Darren Carr said welfare changes, along with declines in the mining and forestry industries, was behind the rise in the number of suicides.
"We also know that threatened loss of income does lead to suicide and we understand there has been a spike in suicides following announcements of welfare cutbacks in the federal budget," he said. more
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