Because some of these people for one reason or another can not or will not work for their $150 Australian, (approx. 110 US dollars) a week they are to be made homeless. I am not here to debate the pros and cons of the work for the dole scheme except to say that I feel it contravenes Australia's own age discrimination laws in that only a certain age group (18 -35 year olds) are required to do so and then only a small percentage of these people are singled out for the scheme. The government by its own admission agrees that work for the dole is not a training scheme to assist the unemployed to obtain work or education. Most of these schemes involve pulling weeds or cleaning river banks.
A murderer, a car thief or even a child molester is treated more humanely then these young Australian Citizens. They are also supported by the Australian tax payers in a gaol cell with food, shelter and medical facilities etc.
Because this minority of Australians can not or do not want to work for there $150 a week government hand out, they are to be left with out food or shelter as they approach Christmas 1999 and the new millennium.
I ask all people who read this to please email their friends, their radio stations, local politicians, and local clergy etc., about this situation, to ask that common sence be applied to this outrageous act of bureaucracy.
I also state this on my own for all the world to read.
As an Australian, I DO NOT and WILL NEVER agree to making my fellow citizens homeless for any reason whatsoever.The government says it is saving Tax payers dollars! I am not prepared to save my tax dollars at the expense of peoples welfare.
