'Six months and you're out': (Australian) MP proposes dramatic new Dole plan

[mountaineer]

'Six months and you're out': MP proposes dramatic new Dole plan
Yahoo7 News on July 24, 2016, 8:54 am

In a dramatic plan to offset higher super concessions for working Australians, long-term dole recipients could soon be cut off from receiving unemployment benefits.

Under the plan, Newstart recipients under 45-years-old would be given six months to find a job before their Centrelink payments would be cut off.

Queensland MP George Christensen, who strongly supported the Federal government's $6 billion superannuation reforms, is expected to submit the plan to the Nationals party room and rise it with Social Services Minister Christian Porter.

“Maybe if they know their dole will run out in six months they’ll go and get a job,” the LNP politician told the Sunday Mail.

Regional areas in Queensland are struggling with high youth unemployment.

This is despite farmers in regional Australia often relying on working holiday-makers to fill their vacancies.

Christensen told Sunday Mail he was 'annoyed' by the dramatically high cost of unemployment benefits.

He said farmers have complained the Federal Government's 32.5 per cent backpacker tax, introduced on the 2015/16 Budget, would have devastating impacts on their businesses.

“We’ve got farmers up our ribs about the backpacker tax.

"Every single farmer says ‘it will kill us’ because we won’t have any labour',” he told the Sunday Mail.

He also claims business owners have reported a culture of workers trying to get sacked on purpose so they could get Centrelink benefits instead of a wage.

[geronl]

How about cutting taxes and the minimum wage?

Maybe if they actually create some jobs then people would be able to work

[massadvj]

Obviously, this man is no politician.  He needs to learn from American politicians that all of these unemployed will vote for him if only he reassures them that the money will keep coming, and that he recognizes that they have nothing to do with their own circumstances in life.  Alternatively, he can blame their situation on foreign companies and bad trade deals, and promise to punish those bad old domestic companies that try to keep their costs in line with their foreign competitors, thus insuring that these companies will gladly pay more for domestic labor after they have been strong-armed by a mafia-like federal government.

No one will vote for a politician who tells voters they are responsible for themselves.  Come on.