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What's one of the worst ideas you've heard from a politican?

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Indulge · 36-40, F
Most would consider Australia as a lucky country...and in many aspects it is , it's safe and peaceful country, it has an impressive and comprehensive welfare system, schools and hospitals available to everyone. The system of things that become a down fall is that the federal government has missed the mark in where they should spend the money most, like numeracy and literature for schools, mental health, trade and skills ,working for the dole. The funding is there and the structure is there but a lot of people are lacking the right information to direct or navigate them to the resources.The Australian government has good intentions to help out its citizens but they are themselves struggling to get accurate information and static data. For example the baby Bonus that was given to mothers for having a baby, the governments intentions was to give an incentive to have children to create the next generation of of working people and ultimately tax payers. Australia is an ageing population, there are more older people than there is younger. The intensions was good ideally but the way they did it was off the mark, they should have spread out the payments over 12 months rather than one lump sum. People took advantage of that but the wrong way. As far as I know Australia is the only country that offers 10-20,000 dollars for people to buy their first homes tax free, Australia has the highest award wages in the world,Australians can study in university and pay for it later. Australia by far is not perfect in its system and they are still a young country that has to learn a lot.
SW-User
@Indulge yeah but those wages don’t match up tho the ridiculous cost of living in Australia, we have an unspoken statistic hidden from outlet government and that is the alarming growth of working class Australians living in or below the poverty line.
Indulge · 36-40, F
@SW-User It mostly depends also in where you live in Australia, the states that have higher cost of living like Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland.... But in general Australia's cost of living has always been a mismatch to the wages. Due to one of the reasons that Australia import a lot of things and there are only 24 million people in the whole of Australia, equals to not enough consumers in general. The wages is steadily going up, there is other countries where there wages haven't gone up in so long. For example in the UK wages went up by 70 pence and it took 30 years.I agree with you there is a growing amount of working class Australians living below the poverty lines, and those are areas that need attention in the future.The government is willing to listen to its citizens and people who are advocating for them.