Hot on the heals of reaffirming the Lieberals turd policies on marriage equality and climate change (saying he will change nothing) now he's going to reintroduce to parliament as one of his first acts the turd unemployment policy; waiting 4 weeks to get any unemployment benefit when losing your job.
This has been rejected by the senate already. The crossbenchers don't like it at all. For good reason, as it most definitely would case extreme hardship for many people with nothing to fall back on. I'm talking homelessness/or bankruptcy. Even if you do have super money to fall back on, you have to be on benefits for 6 months before you can apply.
What are people supposed to tell their landlord? That there's now a 4 week waiting period before you will pay them anything? Most tenants would realise that after two weeks they start sending out eviction notices.
Most of all Australians reject this policy as part of the reason why Team Abbott was so unpopular. This policy goes all the way back to the May 2014 budget policy disaster, the original demand from Team Abbott being a 6 month wait for the dole for under 30's. The one month wait was a last ditch effort to pass something.
Turbull is really going about it the wrong way if he's trying to win hearts and minds in the electorate. This is the worst thing he could do. You can tell him how pissed off you are about it here.
Team Abbott just doesn't get it. Abbott has lost the prime ministership, but his team remains.....
This from the GetUp email.
Day one: Mr Turnbull follows Abbott's suit: delaying marriage equality by blocking a free vote, and making a deal with the Nationals that would rule out a price on emissions during his prime-ministership. Day two: Just a week after the Senate blocked the changes to Newstart, the Turnbull Government reintroduces the proposal, which would leave young jobseekers with no support for four weeks. It's an ominous start and one that begs the question, what'll be next? $100K university degrees? Attacks on our Medicare?
Right now, the Turnbull Government is weighing up which policies they'll abandon, and which of them they'll stick with. As we head towards an election year, public reaction will be a critical factor in determining the policies that stick.
When it comes to the changes in Newstart, GetUp members have shown the government just how much the policy will hurt them at the polls. We've sent thousands of emails to their MPs and senators, rallied in streets around the country, and flooded Senator Abetz's inbox with cheeky "job applications" after the Employment Minister suggested jobseekers send 40 applications a month. The overwhelming community backlash to the proposal forced the government to backdown from a waiting period of 6 months to four weeks, which was also knocked down by the Senate just last week.
We've seen what happens when 81,000 people come together to stand up for a strong safety net for those who need it most. Now we need to do it again.
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