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Dear readers, we are writing about social issues that effect our way of life, and this is blog, No. 3.
(This article was published the first time in 2018)
Dear readers, this is an old article from our Hub Pages articles, where we talk about the “Australian Social Security System”, that was failing to help the farmers. Anyhow, we are repeating this to compare it with what is happening today, so, let us see what we wrote then. We started by writing, why the
Australian Social Security fails to help the farmers; then we will also discuss
other things where they fail. But first let us discuss about the farmer,
because as we have said in a previous article Farming Today Is
Still a Risky Business, so, we want to work out, why the farmers don’t
get social security payment from the government, like most other people do.
You see, today the
Australian Social Security system is helping lots of people, but it is not
helping the farmers, even though the farmers really need help from the
government. Therefore, we want to know why this is happening, and then, we can
suggest how to avoid this happening again. We believe that the Social Security
system in Australia must help anybody that needs help, at least the name itself
suggests that. So, we are going to investigate and talk about this issue, in
this article and the following articles.
Anyhow, our views
are based on what is happening in Australia today, about farming and the
drought, so, the first question is; why the Australian Social Security system
has failed to help the farmers. We believe that the Australian Social Security
can do better than what it is doing now. So, let us see why the Australian
social security is failing to help the farmers.
Now, what we are
saying here is what we know, but, if you want to know more about the Australian
Social Security system, you should follow these links, Social security in
Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security_in_Australia, Benefits and
Payments - Australia.gov.au, and other links that can be found on the
internet.
Anyhow, we believe
that the Australian Social Security system that we call Centrelink, has failed
to help the farmers, because it has not been planned to help them from the
beginning, as we will explain as we go on writing these articles. Anyhow, we
are talking about the drought and the farmers that are having a very hard time,
so, we were saying that all this hardship can be minimized, if aids from the
Social Security System was more readily available to the farmers, but it is
not, so, the only thing that we can think about this failure, is why the social
security has failed to help? Because it is not fair for the farmers, so, the
present Social Security System needs to be fixed.
So, why the social
security has failed to help? Once you ask that question and look for the
reasons, you realize that in Australia not everybody is treated the same, from
the current social security system. You see, people are treated different
because they belong to different categories; there are: the-have and
the-have-not; there are the workers that work for wages; there are the
self-employed; there are the farmers, which we could say are self-employed, and
others; anyhow, when people go to Centrelink the Social Security government
agencies for help, the agencies do what they can according to where these
groups of people belong, so, let us see some examples how this works.
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How the Social Security System works.
Let
us start from the working people; when people that work for a wage, become
unemployed and they are not earning any money, they can go to Centrelink, where
they can apply to receive the unemployment benefit from the government; this
means that the government gives them some money, until they find another job to
go to and can earn their living. This system is called Social Security
unemployment benefits, or something like that, and it is good, it is like
receiving a small wage to help you survive, so, it helps the workers when they
don’t have a job and need financial help, which is good.
But
the problem with this system is that all categories are not treated the same,
which is not good. So, I believe that something needs to be done, to help
anyone that needs help. You see, some categories may not receive help because
they belong to a certain category, even if they earn no money and have no
money, like the farmers today, this is the problem with the Social Security
system of today.
You
see, the farmers cannot turn to the government for help, because they are
self-employed, and they are supposed to be rich, okay they are rich, because
they own a lot of land, so, the assets test will exclude them from any
government help; in this case there is no social security for the farmers. This
is the reason why the social security system is failing the farmers, it is not
set to help those people that cannot earn money even when they work hard, in
the hope they can earn their living. Therefore, the Australian Social Security System needs to be changed.
Because I believe that these people must be helped, because they are the backbone of
the Australian economy, therefore, we cannot afford to lose them, so, the
Social Security system needs to be adjusted to help them when they need help.
They must be helped from the government, until the day that something else can
replace the government help; like the collection of funds that we have
suggested in our last article. Here we need also to say, that today farming is
not regulated from the government, but some regulations may need to be placed;
so that when things don’t work out, the government will be more willing to help
the farmers.
Anyhow,
we have worked out that today the farmers cannot be helped from Centrelink,
because they are self-employed, and because they have too much property as
assets. You see, the assets-test is the main problem here; but I believe that
the assets-test in special cases should not override the income test
completely, this suggestion does not apply only to the farmers, because the
assets-test is also making life miserable to pensioners that own properties,
when those properties cannot earn half the money the assets test believe they
could.
So,
in my views the assets test needs to be modified. Anyhow, we are going into
details later, anyhow, it will become self-explained as we write more articles
about it. We want to say now that there are issues that need to be fixed from
the federal government. So, this farmer’s problem and the assets-test for
pensioner, is going to be a real problem for the politicians, if they want to
help the people that have voted for them at the elections.
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Let us look at the political reasons.
Anyhow,
I want to point it out to you, that in our previous articles we have started to
talk about the farmers problems, but slowly we found ourselves to talk about
assets-test and politics. Now, what is happening at the Australian federal
government level is not right, they need to work better what the people need,
and how the people are affected when they make their budgets, I believe that
this is one of the reasons why Australia is having problems today, some of
these political people that become treasurers are heartless and careless, they
have made many mistakes that has affected the public adversely, some of these
mistakes need to be fixed, the public is not going to forget easily what they have
done, so, they are going to run the risk of losing their next elections, on
this issue alone. But let us compare what is happening now to the past. I
believe that in the past it was better, at least this is the way I have seen it
happen.
Anyhow,
in the past as far as I know there was no assets test in the seventies, it was
introduced later to stop people that were abusing the system, also because the
government needed more money. Now, let us try to see and discuss some of the
reasons that apply today, which takes us to see that the federal government is
greedy, because they want more money. So, here we need to look at who are the
people that make these decisions.
Of course, they are the politicians that we send to Canberra parliament to govern us, since the government is formed from the political parties. Now it becomes evident that it is what these political parties represent, believe and preach that are going to make the future laws and budgets that parliament will pass, to govern Australia. And believe me not everything that they will pass is garanted to work.
Anyhow, this is a shortened version of our original articles, so, we will miss a couple of articles about the Australian politics, and The Australian Political Parties. So, we will go straight to the assets test promlem, since this applies to the rental sector, so, it is the main issue that we want to talk about, in the following articles, The Assets Test Dilemma, followed by The Australian Social Security Must Be Equal. then we will contine with newer articles.
To see more click on this link, Australian Social Security
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