DRACONIAN AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL SERVICES TO KICK YOUTH OFF BENEFITS & REPLACE WITH EITHER SLAVERY/MILITARY CONSCRIPTION
The Unhived Mind
Australia: Budget to cut youth off welfare
By James Cogan
13 May 2014
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/13/welf-m13.html
In a little-publicised speech last Saturday, Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews confirmed that tonight’s federal budget will include draconian attacks on young people, especially those who are unemployed or disabled. Andrews announced that the Liberal-National government will enforce a system of “Earn or Learn”—extending measures that were introduced by the previous Labor government.
Jobless workers under the age of 30 will be compelled to enrol in an education or training course, cutting them off unemployment benefits. Alternatively, they will be instructed to move to areas where jobs are supposedly available, or be stripped of benefits.
Youth will be forced to take seasonal agricultural work in rural areas, or relocate to regions where construction projects are underway to provide ports, roads and other infrastructure for mines or other industries. Employers, especially in remote areas, will be provided with a conscripted workforce, courtesy of the social welfare regime, to drive down wages throughout the working class.
Some youth will be forced into expanded “Work for the Dole” schemes, to be exploited as a cheap labour force by local councils and charity organisations. Youth aged 17 to 24 will also be pressured into joining the government’s proposed 15,000-strong “Green Army.” Paid just half the minimum wage, members of the Green Army will primarily be used to restore damaged agricultural land.
Unemployed youth who face being cut off benefits will be pressured to enter the military, by “volunteering” for a 12-month “Gap Year” enlistment in the armed forces. Labor abolished this program, previously introduced by the earlier Howard Liberal-National government, because it could not attract sufficient numbers. In line with the official celebrations of World War I, and preparations for new wars, the Abbott government has revived the scheme, and will now hope to have the means to push large numbers of young people into it.
A far harsher regime will also prevail for disabled or injured workers who receive the Disability Support Pension (DSP). All disability pensioners under the age of 35 who are deemed capable of some type of work will have to demonstrate they are actively seeking employment, extending a regime already imposed by Labor. Each week, people will have to prove to the social security authorities that they applied for a certain number of positions, or be penalised or cut off benefits.
The Labor government introduced strict medical eligibility requirements for new DSP recipients in 2013, leading to the first ever decline in the number of people being paid the benefit. The Abbott government will extend the medical examinations to tens of thousands of people who previously qualified for DSP, for the purpose of deeming them fit for work and throwing them off the DSP, which pays slightly more than unemployment benefits.
Andrews declared: “The days of easy welfare for young people is over.” He blamed youth for their inability to find work. “We don’t think it is fair,” he stated, “that young people can just sit on the couch at home and pick up a welfare cheque.”
The reality in working class suburbs is that large numbers of youth cannot find full-time jobs because they do not exist. Decades of deindustrialisation have left entire areas mired in endemic unemployment. In northern Adelaide and northern Melbourne, where the car industry has been decimated, youth unemployment ranges from 40 to 50 percent. Overall, unemployment among those aged 18 to 24 is estimated by Roy Morgan Research at over 28 percent.
In an opinion piece in Saturday’s Australian, Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s parliamentary secretary Alan Tudge targeted remote Aboriginal communities where, he claimed, “fewer than one in five 17- to 24-year-olds are fully engaged in work or training.” Such a situation is the result of decades of the denial of essential education, health and housing facilities, and the refusal of successive governments to commit any resources to developing decent employment opportunities in regional Australia. Now, the victims—young people without jobs—will be dragooned into myriad Work for Dole schemes or ordered to leave their families to take jobs elsewhere.
The pittances paid out for DSP and Newstart unemployment benefits condemn hundreds of thousands of people to living well below the poverty line. The Abbott government’s stepped-up regime of intimidation and harassment, which is aimed at depriving people off income support, will exacerbate the terrible social conditions in working class communities. Youth without jobs who are thrown off welfare will become destitute or forced into complete dependency on their parents, who in most cases are themselves struggling to make ends meet. Already, a quarter of all Australians aged 24 to 35 still live with their parents, due to their lack of financial resources.
Andrews said the measures in tonight’s budget would be only the “first instalment” of an assault on what remains of social welfare entitlements. Patrick McClure, the former head of the Mission Australia charity, is preparing a report to be delivered to the government later in the year. Andrews indicated on Saturday that McClure is reviewing “some 50 payments, allowances and supplements” with the aim of consolidating or eliminating them.
theunhivedmind says:
I have been warning about these things for quite some years now. If you want to see where all this thinking originates then you should look at the Iron Mountain Reportsince all this ‘Big Society‘ mindset is all laid out in that very document. The West and Australia have been de-industrialized by New Venice (British Empire) via the Club of Rome organization fronted by the Peccei family of Italy which contains members like Mikhail Gorbachev. In the Iron Mountain Report it highlights how the state will dictate where you live and even who with.
I have said before that the war theatres they have planned out for the next ninety years means they simply do not have the current manpower to execute such tasks. So how can they achieve what they desire? Simply you either use proxy groups like Al-Qaeda as seen in Libya etc or you conscript and draft the youth especially for a World War scenario. They have had planned a third and final World War for a very long time and we are now heading closer to this with the Ukraine crisis. Police forces amongst others have been preparing for this final war for quite some years which should highlight to you that it is a conspired event. With many nations how having a youth unemployment of fifty percent they can force this youth into the military (killing for private elite families and corporations not nations) and other slave programmes.
After creating a dysfunction youth and society through social engineering (Tavistock Institute for Human Relations), they can now get the parents and adults to accept such draconian backward slavery measures imposed on these young beings especially as the establishment demonizes them on a daily basis. The workfare schemes are a total slavery system designed for nations that have been bankrupted and sit in a never ending economic depression (hoodwinked as growth) thanks to Queen Elizabeth II (Doge) and her Venetian Empire in New Venice (Britain). This descendant of the Guelph’s of Venice continues that bloodline tradition of economic depressions and destruction of civilizations.
This New World Order is all about total control over both the earth and its inhabitants. Total control means a world Marxist system making all human beings dependent on the State to live a life as a lower class slave that will never be able to fight against its oppressors. We are now seeing the final stages of the preparation for this evil system being implemented today. Those of you in the United Kingdom had better read this article above and expect everything happening in Australia to come to the UK real soon. Do not believe that a Labour government will be any different to the Conservatives. All three main parties in the UK all serve the City of London desires and you will already have seen how the Department for Work and Pensions has been using implementing these slavery systems just expect even more.
Stop the chaos and form challenging political parties to bring back national sovereignty and the creation of credit currencies (Bradbury Pound, Greenback) and not debt instruments. We can come back but only if we educate and get moving on the ground. Australians must demand that the country is restored and that the Queen (Doge) is removed and a Republic is born.
The video below on the Iron Mountain Report is one of the most important videos of all time and one of a few I fully recommend everyone in the West watches immediately without fail and making notes. I’ve also added the video by Dr John Coleman called ‘Wake Up America’ which is another must watch video. I think just those two are enough to answer any questions you have about why you are seeing and feeling the effects of today’s society.
-= The Unhived Mind
Wake Up America – Dr John Coleman