“When you look at what this government is proposing to do to the young people of Australia, what you have is a group of privileged, older, white men who have benefited from a free education, who have benefited from universal healthcare, who have been the beneficiaries of a generous social safety net saying ‘We had it good… but stuff you. You’re not. We are going to make sure that our prosperity will be had off your shoulders.’
And that’s what i’m most aggrieved about. How is it that a young person, who finds themself unemployed, is ineligible to get support for six months? What on Earth are they supposed to do? How do they feed themselves? How do they pay their rent? How do they pay for transport? How do they clothe themselves? I simply don’t get it. I understand there is a narrow, brutal, ideological world view out there, but it is a world view that effects the lives of young people right across the country. Over 700 000 people will be affected by the changes to Newstart.”
There are currently only 38 537 jobs on the Australian Jobsearch website. Just to give a little context.
Sobbing
Fucking fuck. My chest hurts.
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(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)