Australia does not have a welfare problem. We have a poverty problem

[Matilda]

Excellent response in The Guardian Australia to RWNJ Christian Porter's threat to cut welfare payments, again.

"So, the endgame is not even the modest alleviation of poverty, let alone the arresting of inequality. It is the running down of what actually does work or would work as an investment in people and communities, like Gonski, a highly targeted investment in children’s education, focusing on student need rather than sector. Or like Tafe, a national treasure, that on the watch of governments of both sides of politics, has been systematically undermined and gutted. Likewise, community health programmes, community legal aid programmes, social services and justice reinvestment programmes have been either deliberately cut, like the highly successful Youth Connections, or decidedly ignored.

"Australia does not have a welfare problem. We have a poverty problem and an inequality problem, but you know that these problems are going to be ignored when the dominant discourse focuses our attention on the “welfare problem.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/australia-does-not-have-a-welfare-problem-we-have-a-poverty-problem?CMP=share_btn_tw

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. You have a minority problem....

As in - a tiny minority of rich, greedy assholes is hoarding all of the money.

[Matilda]

2. The 1% has it all here too.

And this Tory government is determined to keep it that way.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. Do they still rail about the aborigines?

[Matilda]

4. Not publicly,

it's about Muslims and refugees in general these days.

But behind the scenes, this government cut funding for Aboriginal projects, and they turn a blind eye to institutionalised racism.