tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18849562260418747922024-03-05T14:56:07.075-08:00Story of Bernadettetelling it like it is about unemployment in AustraliaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-61278457537741642072011-11-26T18:14:00.000-08:002011-11-28T15:54:02.697-08:00Focus on our DISability - Reviewing Social Inclusion InitiativesFor years the Ageing, Disability and Home Care Department (ADHD) has run a Don’t DIS My Ability campaign to celebrate International Day of People with Disability. In partnership with Accessible Arts an arts program has been designed to supposedly boost and foster arts and disability practice within New South Wales. These initiatives coincide with the momentum building at the national level for social inclusion policies targeting those classed as disadvantaged in the workforce. The federal government would appear to be setting ambitious goals for greater participation and integration into the workforce. It remains to be seen though whether there will be any tangible benefit for people with disabilities without guaranteeing their right to appropriate work or funding the necessary support. Beyond the hype is the possibility that the government’s real intention is simply to dump people with disabilities onto the harsh regime of New Start allowance involving tough love breaching and pernicious activity agreements as happened to mothers during the Howard government’s Welfare-to-Work reforms.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNXG1EKY4NpbPC_atbEg1D41CFkJ1WnCGVORpqS_aMU8KqwifO2G7sHWt5hzcPC5FdwrtgfD2BDOdzY2epRCZ9pyit9ph1w2GpHJRrAjkJqHRz_rafDydeSaEKrvqD4nknXvrGRniuUU/s1600/Don%2527t-dis-my-travel.jpg"><br /></a> International Year of People with Disabilities comes around every year leaving us with feel-good motherhood statements and plenty of spin but not enough substance. Rather than slick advertising campaigns, people with disabilities prefer to be properly consulted and treated as part of the decision-making process affecting our lives. I fear such public relations exercises may conceal a return to paternalistic policies that disempower those of us with disabilities, reinstituting the ‘we know what’s best for you’ rule from above. A lack of true inclusiveness can marginalise those living with disabilities as the other. What people with disabilities need is acceptance and accommodation rather than trivialisation of disabling conditions that make it harder for us to compete in a tight job market.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNXG1EKY4NpbPC_atbEg1D41CFkJ1WnCGVORpqS_aMU8KqwifO2G7sHWt5hzcPC5FdwrtgfD2BDOdzY2epRCZ9pyit9ph1w2GpHJRrAjkJqHRz_rafDydeSaEKrvqD4nknXvrGRniuUU/s1600/Don%2527t-dis-my-travel.jpg"><br /></a>Let’s start with advertising slogans such as ’don’t diss my ability’ or ‘focus on ability’ which can have positive effects in raising self esteem and social acceptance particularly for children with disabilities. The message is important but without concrete measures to support adults with disabilities entering or re-entering the workforce it becomes meaningless. Because there is no affirmative action legislation to back up the fine sentiments many adults with disabilities find such slogans empty and hypocritical. Alongside slogans we need say 10% of all taxpayer funded part-time jobs reserved for appropriately qualified job applicants with disabilities. This would not only provide genuine assistance and social inclusion, but paradoxically also help to secure merit-based employment in the private sector. In particular, wherever service provision contracts are paid for by the public purse then governments need to ensure private employers don’t discriminate against jobseekers with disabilities by implementing a quota if necessary. In the disability service sector, affirmative-action employment measures should be at least 20% to guarantee qualified jobseekers with disabilities get a fair go.<br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFaiSurqI9TqvPItkrJucU4ZvQoAtjUbDjz4garUR66h07SKi1vSIDTdyv_f6LV_M43aH3wCo37J-iKh9FUFlUWZTbAK_yIcwm_hK0kAR8t0ZseMTD5fnqDOomqamEYTEqeAsu2w_Vw78/s1600/Response+training+pic3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFaiSurqI9TqvPItkrJucU4ZvQoAtjUbDjz4garUR66h07SKi1vSIDTdyv_f6LV_M43aH3wCo37J-iKh9FUFlUWZTbAK_yIcwm_hK0kAR8t0ZseMTD5fnqDOomqamEYTEqeAsu2w_Vw78/s400/Response+training+pic3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679493555972610690" border="0" /></a></p> Employing a significant proportion of disabled workers in the disability service sector would provide encouragement and positive role models for all those living with disabilities who access their services. The wider community would also benefit from coming into contact with a more inclusive workforce. Additionally it would help stem the tide of nepotism which currently deprives this sector of a more diverse, better qualified talent pool in the increasingly privatised disability services. This would help those living with disabilities to reach their full potential and allow us to contribute to society without the shameful social apartheid of sheltered workshops. There are also hidden dangers in treating the privatised disability service sector as a safe haven of cronyism and jobs for the boys. Take the following example.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNXG1EKY4NpbPC_atbEg1D41CFkJ1WnCGVORpqS_aMU8KqwifO2G7sHWt5hzcPC5FdwrtgfD2BDOdzY2epRCZ9pyit9ph1w2GpHJRrAjkJqHRz_rafDydeSaEKrvqD4nknXvrGRniuUU/s1600/Don%2527t-dis-my-travel.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNXG1EKY4NpbPC_atbEg1D41CFkJ1WnCGVORpqS_aMU8KqwifO2G7sHWt5hzcPC5FdwrtgfD2BDOdzY2epRCZ9pyit9ph1w2GpHJRrAjkJqHRz_rafDydeSaEKrvqD4nknXvrGRniuUU/s400/Don%2527t-dis-my-travel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680196263735418674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Waiting For Equality</span></div><div class="thought-text rb-markup"> <p>As an artist living with disabilities who has a Bachelor of Art Education and a Master of Fine Art qualifications, I have been an arts practitioner and educator for over 30 years. Yet when I tried to get part-time work as an art facilitator at a taxpayer funded private company that provides art training services to the disabled I was told they would welcome my unpaid contributions only. When I asked this company’s art facilitator whether his job had been advertised or if there had been any public call for expressions of interest for his position he told me no. He said he was a recent art school graduate and had no formal teaching qualifications. I then explained my qualifications and experience and asked him how I could obtain paid part-time work as a disabled art facilitator at companies like his. He told me that Accessible Arts had a website where I could put down my particulars and any employer who needed my skills could contact me from there. I asked him if that was how he got his job and was told : “ No I was lucky, because my cousin works here.”</p> <p>I’m not suggesting this is improper because unlike the public service there is no objective examination to guarantee merit-based employment in the private sector even when they are financed by the public purse. There is also less accountability towards clients and jobseekers than in the public sector because they are not subject to Freedom of Information laws and can always claim commercial confidentiality. However it is not just disabled job seekers without connections who are disadvantaged by the privatised disability service sector. When I looked at their website I was horrified to see a photograph showing homeless youth being trained to silkscreen printed Tshirts, without any protective gloves, breathing mask or eyewear. As a four-year trained high school art teacher I knew that this presented a huge occupational health and safety issue but apparently if you are homeless and unemployed, then life is considered very cheap indeed by these private sector job trainers. Just like convicted prisoners the government has legislated to ensure that unemployed people are unable to sue job service providers or Centrelink if they are harmed by their negligence. Will this discriminatory legislation also be extended to people with disabilities?</p> One suspects that behind all this talk of focusing on ability is a hidden agenda to deny full acceptance and respect for people’s disabilities, brushing aside individual needs and failing to enable supported workforce participation. Why treat people with disabilities as second class citizens by refusing to listen to what we need and even failing to include us in the anti-villification laws that protect other minorities? When it comes to social inclusion initiatives policymakers are still not on the same page. Professor Corinne Mulley, Sydney University’s Chair of Public Transport has proposed not allowing welfare recipients to travel on Sydney’s public transport during peak hours to solve congestion. Considering that most people with disabilities cannot work full-time and must access welfare payments to survive then this divisive proposal if implemented will cause further disadvantage. It is dehumanising and denies us any hope of social acceptance and full workforce participation. Whatever happened to all the hoopla about social inclusion? The silence from relevant government departments and the disability services lobby over this proposal has been deafening. It just shows that the ’Don’t Dis My Ability’ publicity campaign lacks credibility.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7t84jzHABzgqb0w_Bd3B7rWZYNgD6QCjur6XNE432KsI1MCrBU-RLDHO2cNnlgL94qf3wmvNXLktxl9sN3D5VBXOtP9dXWlIfEsB5saO603ENp9RU9yBboi5QunV5ij3VyVPXnPemzM/s1600/syd-trans-2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7t84jzHABzgqb0w_Bd3B7rWZYNgD6QCjur6XNE432KsI1MCrBU-RLDHO2cNnlgL94qf3wmvNXLktxl9sN3D5VBXOtP9dXWlIfEsB5saO603ENp9RU9yBboi5QunV5ij3VyVPXnPemzM/s200/syd-trans-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680192923609383634" border="0" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p>If policymakers are serious about focusing on ability then they should recommend quotas for employing disadvantaged jobseekers in all publicly funded positions such as the job service sector, the creative industries and promised new green enterprises. Either that or change the policy settings for the economy away from controlling inflation towards controlling unemployment as was done from the end of the second world war until the mid 1970s. Most economists believe its harder to control inflation if unemployment falls below 4.75% so Reserve Bank and government policies now ensure there is never full employment. But if unemployment is so important for lowering inflation and guaranteeing the health of our economy then why not rotate under/unemployment and give everyone a turn at being employed? The unemployment queue is perhaps the only queue, where the longer you wait your turn for a job, the less chance you have of reaching your destination. Why should the burden of under/unemployment be placed exclusively upon disadvantaged Australians such as the long-term unemployed and people living with disabilities or those with insufficient class connections? Why not advance Australia FAIR?<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-326754943658840472011-10-10T18:51:00.000-07:002011-10-16T17:15:38.270-07:00Telling Signs of Racism and Classism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikgtdLZbHXIo6qGbJnwyqLu2gy-ZuZy5LVS9fjR2KE7uhGdxJHRYEMx6bGtaS9rkpk8YuZgTbDpcKW48_76eBEdDO5OjPtdr-q_kTvuaMVdzH5SG2oDYrjVPYmNVSaeDeaAeC7x-BBapY/s1600/Basic+Rights.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikgtdLZbHXIo6qGbJnwyqLu2gy-ZuZy5LVS9fjR2KE7uhGdxJHRYEMx6bGtaS9rkpk8YuZgTbDpcKW48_76eBEdDO5OjPtdr-q_kTvuaMVdzH5SG2oDYrjVPYmNVSaeDeaAeC7x-BBapY/s400/Basic+Rights.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662050491821764722" border="0" /></a>Telling it like it is at the No Income Management Rally last Saturday in Bankstown, Sydney. Leaders such as Barbara Shaw described the humiliation of Aboriginal people in Northern Territory caused by the government quarantining their income and forcing them to use a ration card. This income management will now be trialled on welfare recipients in Bankstown and other parts of Australia. More photos at <a href="http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/10/no-income-management-rally.html">Australian Documentary Photography</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw29S9ZA9a3Fi0BveBhtudGH8oZxbSS7TX1yULZpMnVXHxbpgduoN09LGt2sCQSLq1FMZEKyMs6AiWdebHV' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-24660413777959261842011-05-25T21:22:00.000-07:002011-05-29T19:25:33.798-07:00Letter to Liao Yiwu from a member of Australia's underclass<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoCaption, li.MsoCaption, div.MsoCaption { margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; }p.MsoList, li.MsoList, div.MsoList { margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText { margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.Heading, li.Heading, div.Heading { margin: 12pt 0cm 6pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; }p.Index, li.Index, div.Index { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1</style><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >Dear Liao,</span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >I went to the 2011 Sydney Writers Festival and spent much of the time waiting in lines hoping to get a seat at one of the free lectures. I am unwaged and subsist on government welfare. Along with up to 30% of my fellow citizens I belong to Australia's underclass as I am denied the right to work in this country. It is not because we have been critical of the government but because we were born without the right class connections. Our country is not a meritocracy and is riven by inequality. Here it is not what you know but who you know that determines your fate in life.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >Anyway after waiting so long for a free seat at the Sydney Writers Festival and just missing out so many times I thought my luck had finally turned when someone offered me a free ticket to the Liao Yiwu lecture: “ The dangers of what we think we know”. Well Liao, I guess I wasn't so lucky after all because when I arrived a columnist from the Murdoch press, Miriam Cosic of the Australian newspaper, was there to tell us that the Chinese government wouldn't let you come to the Festival. Cosic explained to the audience that there had been another crackdown on artists and writers in China. She read your letter thanking would-be sponsors. It went on to say how cruelly your government has treated you and how free Australia must be for inviting you. Nodding knowingly to her middle-class audience (many of whom were clutching fistfuls of lecture tickets at $20 and $30 each - enough to feed a welfare family for a week) she pontificated: “We here in Australia have no idea what it must be like to live under constant government crackdowns as they do in China”.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >Funny that, because only the previous week the Federal budget announced yet another government crackdown on welfare recipients starting with teenage mums and disabled youth. Teen mums are to be separated from their babies at six months old to do compulsory job training or Work for the Dole programs. Young disabled citizens will not only need specialist medical reports to support their claim for an allowance but letters from at least three employers saying they are unable to employ them because of their disability. The crackdown will put these Australians on the same degrading treadmill of harassment, pernicious activity tests and surveillance as the unemployed who daily run the risk of being breached for even minor infractions. Every waking hour is to be spent justifying their existence to a parasitic bureaucracy and job service goons. Then when they suffer mental breakdown, a bunch of Canberra public servants in the guise of Get Up! to </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><span style="">only </span>deal with the symptoms not the causes, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >call for more psychiatrists. This is medicalising the social problems of inequality, lack of meaningful work, economic exclusion and institutional bastardisation of Australia's underclass.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >Many people with secure, well paid jobs are fond of saying that there is no poverty in our country but in reality a third world exists within a first world here. It is a hangover from Victorian England<span style=""> </span>that the have-nots of our country are judged as either deserving or undeserving poor according to warped, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant values dominant since the industrial revolution. The well off<span style=""> </span>mainly empathise with the hardship and injustices suffered by citizens from other parts of the world yet deny the basic human rights violations happening in their own backyard. Despite Australia being a signatory to the United Nations Human Rights Charter guaranteeing every citizen the right to work, job seekers are locked out of our economy.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >With all the mineral wealth that lies beneath Australian soil there is never any thought that lower class families should share in this wealth even though as part of our Commonwealth it belongs to all of us. Yet as the mining boom rages, the contrast between high and low income earners has never been greater while money generated from our country creates bloated executive salaries and is siphoned off to other parts of the world. When you look at maps of the world showing each nation's endowment of natural resources, you find that generally those that have the most minerals and energy per capita also have the largest contrast between rich and poor and Australia is heading the same way.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVoMudHTKZ3WLPeoXFdVGL1lpJBuokHh9RzjIbTtZTu6nrzuSOpzjkTEGYTDyHx49kAQ0rhGTGwuTWZF0T28MvYbm8a2CT1rPnCR8r8pNPLUaq0LSWYHnO7KaOVfuKU2qL7KnabxkzWE/s1600/Dole-Queue.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVoMudHTKZ3WLPeoXFdVGL1lpJBuokHh9RzjIbTtZTu6nrzuSOpzjkTEGYTDyHx49kAQ0rhGTGwuTWZF0T28MvYbm8a2CT1rPnCR8r8pNPLUaq0LSWYHnO7KaOVfuKU2qL7KnabxkzWE/s400/Dole-Queue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612329088739953234" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >Australia had almost full employment from the Second World War until the mid-70s when in response to OECD pressure policymakers deliberately created a permanent underclass of unemployed citizens (further research is available from the Centre for Full Employment and Equity at the University of Newcastle)</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >. This underemployment was to discipline the workforce and force us to accept lower wages using the coercion of job insecurity. The government figured that having a workforce terrified of unemployment would make us docile and we would censor ourselves without the need for a heavy-handed secret police. The added advantage was that the steady growth in living standards and workers' wages occurring after World War II could be diverted into the pockets of company executives, foreign corporations and the ruling elite.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >Using the OPEC oil shock as the cover story the government set about shrinking the public sector which had been a traditional employer of workers who couldn't be absorbed into the private sector. The government printery, shipyards and rail workshops all started closing as jobs were subcontracted offshore. There was further hollowing-out of employment opportunities as essential services became privatised. Factories started closing and the manufacturing sector contracted as import tariffs were steadily removed. While politicians were claiming that it would make Australia more efficient we started hearing new terms bandied about like downsizing, slim-lineing, deregulation and restructuring. Almost overnight jobs became scarcer and our national wealth became redistributed towards the big end of town. For the first time in 1981 when state teacher trainees graduated as high school art teachers virtually none obtained full-time teaching positions with the NSW Education Department and most ended up on 30 year waiting-lists. Rather than employ these Australian graduates the government, driven by ideology, preferred to import teachers from Canada.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD91T6Y0nhJO38aZ8u8UEFoO7ip2t2e2fmNOvQbuQBrTcuNdUrDEtft0QULH4liavrt8-GAijuXwuRyvTY5tIAjYB9bZfNK3DLA8vP3tbPgdDAVYqqjwIBKxpVuoQJPZKfdPPCla__p0/s1600/Business+Model.jpg"><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >To ensure there is never much sympathy for those without work the government and media barons peddle the Orwellian lie that Australia has full employment and simply cook the books. The unemployed and underemployed are labelled as dole bludgers, job snobs, cruisers and losers. They have only their own character flaws to blame for their misfortune so the story goes. Many with university qualifications have tried over 300 times to get a job but are still unemployed so how can that be full employment? Perhaps they lack skills the economy needs and should have trained in something more practical. Maybe if they retrained as Latin graduates, like the CEO of Westpac, they could get a job earning $9.5 million a year.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="Heading" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; page-break-after: auto;"><br /></p><p class="Heading" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; page-break-after: auto;">But the problem really isn't that there is insufficient employment but only that there is insufficient funding of employment. The Local Government Association alone has identified enough unfunded jobs needing to be done to employ every jobless Australian. If only we could use some of the super mining profits being dug out of the ground to fund these needed jobs with a resource tax. Everyone would have a place in society instead of holding unemployed and casual workers hostage to the job service merry-go-round. All this money from the mining boom employs only 1% of Australians yet miners import trained workers from overseas rather than train job-seekers that are already here.</p><p class="Heading" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; page-break-after: auto;"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >In China Liao, you got four years gaol for writing a poem about Tiananmen Square. In Australia Lance Sharkey got three years for saying Australian workers would welcome the Soviet army if they arrived here. Four years sentence for a poem, three years gaol for a sentence – what's the difference? Well Lance certainly wasn't lionised by the Australian media or showered with glittering prizes and book deals which is a significant difference. And he wasn't complicit in unwittingly or otherwise airbrushing the plight of the oppressed underclass of one country, supposedly to help publicise the oppression of another. Do you think Australian representatives are discussing China's human rights at the London Metals Exchange?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" >There is economic apartheid in Australia today and the situation is akin to the era of racial apartheid in South Africa when local human rights activists called upon other countries for trade boycotts and travel embargoes. Perhaps if Australia's left wasn't permanently out to lunch then something would be done along these lines but for now you need to be aware that Australia isn't free and oppression doesn't begin or end at national borders. Ever since the eighties when we spiralled into a Dickensian nightmare of extreme capitalism and hidden unemployment Australia has had the highest rate of youth suicide in the Western world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;" > So next time you send a letter to be read at a writers festival, you could spare a thought for the oppressed of your host country rather than playing into the hands of Australia's oligarchy. That way, you'd have a credible claim to be advancing the cause of universal human rights rather than providing grist to the mill of Cold War warriors in the Murdoch press et al. Thanks for reading this Liao, hope I haven't hurt your feelings but I thought it was about time you took a walk in our shoes. Since you can't come in person to Australia I'm giving you a virtual tour but if you ever get a visa then look me up and I'll show you the real Australia you don't see in tourist brochures.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD91T6Y0nhJO38aZ8u8UEFoO7ip2t2e2fmNOvQbuQBrTcuNdUrDEtft0QULH4liavrt8-GAijuXwuRyvTY5tIAjYB9bZfNK3DLA8vP3tbPgdDAVYqqjwIBKxpVuoQJPZKfdPPCla__p0/s1600/Business+Model.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD91T6Y0nhJO38aZ8u8UEFoO7ip2t2e2fmNOvQbuQBrTcuNdUrDEtft0QULH4liavrt8-GAijuXwuRyvTY5tIAjYB9bZfNK3DLA8vP3tbPgdDAVYqqjwIBKxpVuoQJPZKfdPPCla__p0/s400/Business+Model.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610884411639560114" border="0" /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-70356923886575763722010-12-03T13:26:00.000-08:002010-12-05T01:00:25.517-08:00Labour in Vain Resurrected As Work For The Dole<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms">"Detainees were expected to work 6 hours a day but there was not much real work to do...The guards smeared the handrails with grease and we polished them with hessian over and over." Compare this wartime army punishment to private sector "Work For The Dole" programs today where for example "... the same doors (are) painted and repainted 3 or 4 times in six weeks (that didn't need repainting in the first place) and scores of participants sitting around for hours bored and miserable with no meaningful work to do" excerpt from <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com/2009/12/work-and-worklessness-in-newcastle.html" target="_blank" title="http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com/2009/12/work-and-worklessness-in-newcastle.html" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link">http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com...</a><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><br /></p> </div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWMSFDMgVecsaWk9adOnS2OHpjsKk_U2WpxfAgu20W1TCh5rMsT9Uc3PxBoH3gpM5vbL515V-8UK9DL0v3IGRvbHocmX0BdlcJEY4lI3QfoKla1oMJyBOEZidouHhthZOMp3V8ouk1qZk/s1600/Labour+in+Vain+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWMSFDMgVecsaWk9adOnS2OHpjsKk_U2WpxfAgu20W1TCh5rMsT9Uc3PxBoH3gpM5vbL515V-8UK9DL0v3IGRvbHocmX0BdlcJEY4lI3QfoKla1oMJyBOEZidouHhthZOMp3V8ouk1qZk/s400/Labour+in+Vain+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546679824116738898" border="0" /></a>World War Two army punishment. What's the difference between a criminal and a long term unemployed person? Answer: One is the victim of a government crime against humanity.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">On a lighter note hear an unwaged mother's experience of dealing with private sector Job Capacity Assessment as part of Welfare to Work Reforms supposed to "help" mothers back into the workforce. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5Y4yj_VTs">Here </a>is an audio recording of a disabled mother brought to the brink of a nervous breakdown shortly after a compulsory job capacity assessment carried out by one of the myriad private sector companies that treat disadvantage as a commodity. For the uninitiated, those with injuries or long term illness classed as unemployed such as mothers caught up in Welfare to Work reforms must undergo Job Capacity Assessment (JCA) for their fitness to work or else be forced to do bogus job training or work for the dole programs comparable to outdated WW2 army punishments such as "Labour In Vain".<br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">PSP means Personal Support Program that provides free counseling and certain health services for the unemployed but is heavily rationed. CRS stands for the confusingly named Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service which is a private, for profit company that does little more than supervise and "monitor" an unwell welfare recipient's efforts to find employment and health services through the public sector. CRS provides no therapy for unwell clients whatsoever and has been known to treat clients with mental health issues with callous disrespect which has exacerbated their condition. Current campaigns by GetUp et al for better mental health services do little to address the underlying causes of mental health problems such as abusive supervisory approaches to the poor in the privatized job service sector, a lack of paid work in meaningful jobs and childhood trauma.<br /><br />Recently the government has returned to a policy of using more accountable public sector Job Capacity Assessors perhaps because of the buried statistics on increased rates of jobseeker suicides that resulted from private enterprise handling such social issues.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0K5Y4yj_VTs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0K5Y4yj_VTs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></embed></object><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-14091146205209415432010-08-30T03:14:00.000-07:002010-11-26T02:56:27.460-08:00An open letter to the GreensTo: Lee Rhiannon<br />Subject: Re: unemployed concerns about job network<br /><br />Hi Lee et al,<br />congratulations on your election win. We know you must be very busy but are wondering if you could give some consideration to the long term unemployed especially with regard to current human rights abuses in Australia. "The billions of dollars spent on the employment services sector has done nothing for the long term unemployed but create anxiety and disempowerment. Most long-term unemployed want rid of this paternalistic bureaucracy and for these tax dollars to be spent on subsidizing jobs in the public sector and in the arts, education, environment friendly energy, infrastructure and cooperative employment ventures for the jobless instead. The massive expenditure on monitoring and supervising the unemployed is wasteful and is creating a permanent underclass. If we keep going this way we'll have one half of Australia being paid to watch the other half." from <a href="http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com/2009/12/work-and-worklessness-in-newcastle.html">http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com/2009/12/work-and-worklessness-in-newcastle.html</a><br /><br />I know the Greens are supporting 10,000 new green industry jobs but will there be any guarantee that those jobs will go to the long term unemployed? Unemployed Australians cannot compete with trained experienced workers from overseas especially when sham job training from the privatised job service sector just leads to nowhere.<br /><br />Could the Greens also consider the traumatised feelings of underemployed/unemployed clergy abuse survivors before devising any more joint initiatives between the Greens and the churches re unemployment? Your last letter listed some of the things it was doing to supposedly "help" the unemployed including:<br />'The Greens secured a $300 million fund to provide one-off grants to church, charitable, community organisations and local councils for pilot projects...'<br /><br />Jobseekers would feel a lot less anxiety if the Greens help maintain the separation of powers between church and state. If your party is really interested in church business then why not hold a parliamentary inquiry into the plight of our clergy abuse survivors who are still unable to get justice within the courts and whose lives have been blighted by the appalling abuse of church power which now continues against the jobless?<br /><br />Just like the sexual assaults perpetrated against defenseless children, there is nothing "charitable" about churches breaching the vulnerable long term unemployed. As researchers such as Bill Mitchell have described it in an online article at <a href="http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3653#more-3653">http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3653#more-3653</a>:<br />'Under the Job Network, we saw the churches who took out contracts to deliver labour market services reduce their charity work and embrace for profit the brutal system of breaching. For overseas readers, this involved the providers dobbing the most disadvantaged workers into the government who then fined them for minor breaches of their pernicious activity tests. Cases such as schizophrenics who were unable to attend an interview as a result of their illness were breached (significant loss of benefits).'<br /><br />thanks for your time Lee,<br />would love to hear from you soon (but not another form letter from a staffer about the 10,000 new green jobs because we've already got that one).<br /><br />regards Bernadette SmithUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-41543556561249740682010-08-19T04:29:00.000-07:002010-10-28T16:36:02.512-07:00100 dogs chasing 80 bonesI hear that opposition leader Tony Abbott if elected is going to pay young people a bonus if they stay in their job for more than a year or was it two? The only problem is that the flexible employment and casualisation of the workforce introduced by recent governments to make the economy supposedly more "efficient" has made job security out of reach for up to 20% of Australian workers and the unemployed. The real problem for young people is not a lack of motivation or laziness but simply that there aren't enough jobs or apprenticeships to go around. Its a case of 100 dogs chasing 80 bones if the government leaves it to the private sector to employ everyone that needs a job.<br /><br />Ever since the OECD pressured the Australian government to deliberately create unemployment in the mid seventies using the oil shock as the cover story, Australians have been denied the full employment that existed for 30 years as bipartisan government policy under leaders such as Ben Chifley and Bob Menzies. As private industry contracts during cycles of boom and bust, workers are shed and their skills are lost after a decade or more of unemployment. Yet earlier if workers were surplus to private enterprise needs there was always a healthy public sector where workers could be employed and stay experienced, keep their skills up to date on the job and young people could be trained as apprentices. Then when the private sector boomed these workers could be redirected to that sector as needed. Whereas now we don't even try to train young people on the job because its cheaper to import trained workers from overseas.<br /><br />Last year the Greens promised they would help create 10,000 new jobs in the proposed green economy but I am still waiting to hear from them whether they guarantee those jobs would go to the long term unemployed or would Australia just import better trained workers from overseas for these positions. Unemployed people are not competing on a level playing field when they must compete against more experienced, better trained workers from other countries while the government abandons its responsibility to its own unemployed/underemployed citizens. Australia could have a more sustainable economy if we trained unemployed Australians on the job in the public sector instead of importing the trained workers needed during periods of private sector expansion. The pressure to constantly expand our population through skilled immigration programs would be correspondingly reduced.<br /><br />see also<a href="http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/pubs/briefs/dogs/dogs_and_bones.cfm"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/pubs/briefs/dogs/dogs_and_bones.cfm</span></a><a href="http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3653#more-3653"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-88418969358754321662010-08-02T20:37:00.000-07:002010-08-19T02:47:36.588-07:00Seeing Red over 2010 ElectionIt seems as if almost every political party in the upcoming 2010 election are intent on either ignoring the plight of the unemployed or making matters worse. <br /><br />For starters we have Abbott promising to drag jobless youth away from what little social support they have and dump them into the unfamiliar environment of frontier mining towns far away from the security of friends and family. Mining unions have already warned there is no work for them and scarce little affordable housing to be found if this ill-conceived plan goes ahead. On top of this there will be yet another crackdown on so-called dole bludgers. In addition I believe he also wants to create budget surpluses by reducing the intake of new public service employees which can only excacerbate jobless numbers. <br /><br />Our latest PM who ousted Rudd, Julia Gillard, not to be outdone in this bidding war against the poor has set her sights on "welfarism" which she hasn't yet defined. She may be playing to the gallery of "aspirational" voters and sending out a dog whistle to a supposed middle Australia. <br /><br />The Green party is naturally calling for green jobs for the cherry picked few but not offering to help dismantle the privatised job service sector or create full employment. They also seem to be busy undermining the left leaning Lee Rhiannon who is in with a chance of a senate seat and might actually have some kind of social conscience about unemployment compared to the other neo-liberals of influence in the Greens. (See last weekend's Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum).<br /><br />The only political group in the election that seems to be actually calling for full employment and human rights for the unemployed is Gough save us - the Communist Alliance. It looks like the unemployed and those without job security don't exactly have a royal flush in their choice of who to vote for but here's a link to what the Reds are saying:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brendakellaway">http://www.youtube.com/user/brendakellaway</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1884956226041874792.post-44953653210554798842009-12-01T17:25:00.000-08:002010-12-03T20:56:54.332-08:00Work and Worklessness in Newcastle - An Unemployed Perspective<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. 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For over two decades I've been a casual teacher in high schools, TAFE and universities as well as a practising artist, student, carer and mother. My paid employment history is not continuous partly due to life circumstances and partly due to the introduction of supposed flexible and casual work practices which has led to insecure employment for at least a third of the working age population. In the field of the arts, work in Australia can be particularly precarious especially for someone without formidable networks. Unlike many countries, Australia does not have a merit-based system of employment selection that is enshrined in law. In Singapore for example it is punishable as a crime to employ someone in a taxpayer funded position, solely on the basis of knowing them as a friend or because one gains some personal advantage.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Here in Australia, if you're not employed in the field of engineering or science and especially if you are seeking employment in the visual arts then success often depends on who you know or who you can turn to for a favour. I know that in other areas of the arts there are similar problems. There is simply not enough government funding or broad based community support made available to employ all people who are talented in the arts so there is a surplus of talent coexisting with insufficient accountability for those selecting from that talent pool. For example looking through back catalogues at Lake Macquarie Art Gallery I noticed one catalogue published for an exhibition of invited artists had the title: “Well Connected - Artists of the Hunter”. Controversy over employment practices at the <a href="http://artlife.blogspot.com/2010/01/trouble-at-mill.html">National Art School</a> also illustrates the </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ongoing </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">issue of a lack of independent regulatory oversight in the public funded visual art sector.
<br /></span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">What makes the system of selection fairly opaque is that in most government funded art institutions there is little or no public access to curatorial criteria for decision-making and little peer review or accountability to the art community. If a patient in a hospital dies on the operating table because the doctor was unqualified to do the job there is a public enquiry and disciplinary proceedings but there are no such consequences if an inferior candidate is selected for a government funded art exhibition, collection or art administration position. For this reason the system often lacks integrity and there can be conflicts of interests. In 1995 David Langman a curator at Newcastle Region Art Gallery, was researching a post graduate thesis on curatorial criteria for publicly funded art galleries and museums. Of all those public art administrators he surveyed barely half were prepared to disclose this information or even had a policy in place. It was Langman who blew the whistle when his superior, director David Bradshaw, was involved in an apparent conflict of interest by selling minor British painters from his own collection to the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. There are no prizes for guessing who ended up out of work and leaving Newcastle as a result of this, but it certainly wasn’t the director. The flow on from insecure employment can extend to all levels of our society not just the arts.</span></span>
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This has been exacerbated over recent years by the demoralising decline in conditions and harassment of unemployed people mandated by successive governments. The unemployed have been made scapegoats for a failing economy and vilified by conservative political leaders as 'dole bludgers' and 'job snobs'.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">As the treatment of unemployed people worsens people are less likely to speak out against unethical practices in the workplace and wider society for fear of the consequences of being blacklisted from sources of employment. I know of at least one teacher in Newcastle whose casual contract wasn't renewed after she blew the whistle on a later proven case of child abuse involving another teacher on staff. As an unemployed person she is now expected by job service staff to undertake compulsory training in how to write a letter to an employer even though she previously taught this course to junior secondary students.
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I have seen middle-aged men brought to the brink of suicide by such patterns of abuse from agencies like Employment Plus. It can be used to intimidate and bully clients keeping them in a constant state of anxiety and submission. Previously when the unemployed were made ill from such treatment they could obtain a sick certificate from their doctor exempting them from such training for a short period. Now Centrelink can decide that even with a sick certificate jobless clients must continue to do inappropriate job training. Centrelink announced this new catch with an Orwellian flourish on their letterhead logo that read: “giving you options”.
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Yet far from being benign, Job Network has functioned more like a labyrinth of privatised prisons without walls fixing electronic handcuffs on the unemployed. The whole Job Network system and now Job Services Australia extends across Australia like a wretched archipelago of human misery.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHqomnPyfvQH5MbiVudEdVfZIXYvNd6nzBQNLrTRqofH8dHbVzeS1L9o9ZVXaECJowIWMKLvVdDl-RZFw6gZYJcHJ0vYJmPlqNh-BykmKylziQouODrK7Tfyuf11vR9Md7jrILrA0l-A/s1600-h/Hunter+Stree+solutions.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHqomnPyfvQH5MbiVudEdVfZIXYvNd6nzBQNLrTRqofH8dHbVzeS1L9o9ZVXaECJowIWMKLvVdDl-RZFw6gZYJcHJ0vYJmPlqNh-BykmKylziQouODrK7Tfyuf11vR9Md7jrILrA0l-A/s400/Hunter+Stree+solutions.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410483272188159650" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">Ours is a society in which the haves are keeping the have-nots under a constant regime of impoverishment and belittling supervision. Surely an independent cost/benefit analysis would show that there are better ways to handle unemployment or must entrenched private vested interests continue to outweigh the common good? </span>
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Retraining<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="">Over the last two decades I've noticed funding for the arts steadily decreasing not only for artists but for teachers as well. In high schools there has been a successful push to move art teaching away from painting and sculpture towards computer arts and a greater emphasis on Maths and science subjects in the HSC. Creativity in dance, music and art for example has been devalued to the point where only maths and science are seen as important to society. As a result the availability of teaching jobs in the arts has contracted and people like myself with art teaching qualifications find it harder to find work in this field but it's not a simple matter of retraining. Unemployed art teachers received offers from the Education Department to retrain as maths teachers. Unfortunately the very reason I entered the visual art field in the first place apart from having a natural ability in this area, was because I have discalculia (difficulty understanding maths). There are many of us in a similar position based on anecdotal accounts although paid research about it is thin on the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">In Australia it seems that if one is not cutting something down or digging something up or calculating ways to do it more effectively then it is of no use to our society. We have become the world's quarry in a society out of balance. Yet countries such as Germany have become the world leaders of technology <b>and</b></span><span style=""> culture by keeping arts and sciences funding balanced rather than favouring one at the expense of the other. Here the priority is bread and circuses. It has been estimated that the money required to train Australian athletes for the Olympics is equivalent to a new school or hospital for every gold medal won. Why are elite athletes employed at taxpayers expense while artists, teachers and even graduating nurses are thrown on the unemployment scrap heap? Why did my now deceased father have to spend five hours throwing up in the emergency waiting room at John Hunter Hospital before receiving medical attention? Why not let the Americans have the gold medals and let us have the functional public hospitals and schools and a vibrant home grown culture instead.<span style=""> </span></span></span><!--EndFragment-->
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<br /></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >Although there is a lot of advertising hype from institutions such as TAFE that mature age unemployed in need of retraining to return to the workforce will be especially catered for I personally have not found this to be the case. As a student at Hunter Street TAFE campus in 2007 I observed that their Multimedia course was particularly skewed towards younger male students and male teachers. Both the retention and selection of older women students and the numbers of women employed to teach was deficient. From my experience the IT and Multimedia TAFE classroom can often be hostile environments for mature aged women and very much a boys club. Information technology has the exclusive aura of a priesthood that can be intimidating for the uninitiated. Although I found most teachers in this course helpful and encouraging, a minority in key technical subject areas created an inhospitable learning environment.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=""><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">In spite of there being no beginners course available in Multimedia and the only prerequisite asked for was a Higher School Certificate I was often told by particular teachers that I did not belong in the class. There was a constant turnover of students as over half the class dropped out and new ones were slotted in to take their place. I also became aware of an 'in' group and a minority 'out' group. The 'in' group of invited students were favoured with technical workshops and media projects held outside of class time with certain teachers. During normal class time those on the outer would be mystified when reference was made to subject matter covered exclusively by the 'in' group outside of class. Queries from the puzzled outsiders would inevitably be met with: ' You should pay more attention in class! ' During one such occasion I asked the teacher in which week he had covered the topic mentioned so I could look it up in my notes, only to be told: 'How should I know? '. Yet I knew from previously being a TAFE teacher myself that all teachers were required to record and date lesson plans listing topics covered for their classes but in Multimedia at Hunter Street TAFE this didn't seem to apply.
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I wondered if I should have made an official complaint about these practices until I met a mature age former student with the same hostile teacher who had done exactly that. Her complaint was handled in-house and at the supposed mediation she was ambushed by what turned into a character assassination of the complainant. In contrast to the IT classroom at Hunter Street campus, older women and minorities are more acceptable in their Fine Arts courses. Unfortunately it is the difficult computer technology areas that provide the most opportunity for entry-level employment but in practice if not by design older women and those who are different can be excluded from this kind of government funded retraining.
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Speaking as someone who has taught art educational methodology to trainee high school teachers I find that the pedagogical method in TAFE information technology and multimedia is inadequate. It disadvantages many learners by pitching mainly to the more advanced students and the rest are left behind. While studying multimedia at Hunter Street TAFE I used a stop watch over several classes to log the amount of actual time spent by a web design teacher helping individual advanced students compared to the help received by those struggling at the bottom of the class. Although I wouldn’t describe it as a rigorous empirical study the results did indicate that not only were advanced students favoured over the less capable students time-wise but paradoxically the teacher by his comments made in class perceived the opposite to be the case.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Earlier this year, deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard was asked what would happen to ageing labourers when her government lifts the retirement age for the pension to 67 years. She airily declared that they could all retrain for something less physically demanding. With the Opposition party now wanting to extend it to 70 years of age one wonders what will become of all the women cleaners, aged care employees, former carers and other manual workers who attempt at 60 years of age to retrain at TAFE.</span></span>
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Coercive Pedagogy<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >It is unfortunate that due to the coercive nature of current supervisory approaches to the long-term unemployed some teachers no longer feel obliged to put in their best effort for what can be a captive market. When I was lecturing in Darwin, several years ago I attended a barbecue where there were several other teachers and naturally at one point we started talking shop. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >We discussed the typical challenge of having enough time to prepare lessons well enough and to make the subject matter stimulating, engaging and comprehensible to different intellectual levels in the classroom thereby keeping students motivated and passionate about our area of knowledge. One teacher smugly announced that she didn't have to bother with all that because her students were referred to her for compulsory numeracy and literacy courses by Centrelink and the Job Network, now known as Job Services Australia. She boasted that she didn't have to make it interesting or do exhaustive preparation because if the unemployed students gave her negative feedback or were bored and disruptive she could simply inform Centrelink and they would lose their benefits.
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<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p>Many long-term unemployed are caught up in an endless B grade training treadmill repeatedly doing needless, soul destroying compulsory courses in how to write a letter to an employer etc. </span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >So-called "job training" has included written commandments to 'never criticise the country, state or economic situation' and to 'examine the need for personal change in clothing, manner or appearance'. It is never acknowledged that there has been over 40 unemployed people for every one job vacancy in the Hunter.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" > When the Rudd government provides more money for job agencies to upgrade unemployed training courses the Salvation Army's Employment Plus for example simply charges more for the same useless in-house job training. God helps those that help themselves...</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >I have tried to find out where the money goes that is supposed to help unemployed people into a job and even asked the Salvation Army whether they use surplus income from Employment Plus to cross-subsidise their other programs like say hostels for alcoholics. I was referred to head office and found it near impossible to get a responsible person in the know to return my phone call let alone obtaining any answers.
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >While information about this is difficult if not impossible to access there was a hint provided by Frank Quinlan, in an interview published online in the Cathnews service (previously cited). Discussing the impact of their loss of job service contracts he said: “other social services provided by not for profit organisations could stop because of the loss of funding.” It seems that church-based agencies are taking away public funds intended for helping the unemployed and redirecting substantial amounts to </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >“other social services".</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > Has this been done with the consent of their unemployed clients or Australian taxpayers?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >Instead of unemployed people being treated as stakeholders able to provide feedback on the relevance or effectiveness of their training they are kept out of the loop. There also appears to be no independent, evidence-based evaluation of employment provider training courses. Even unemployed teachers and postgraduate students are forced to do<span style=""> </span>wasteful and humiliating training courses that they are over-qualified for.</span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" > In my experience, such job agencies create a climate of shame and blame for the unemployed and their families inculcating a subservient, unquestioning obedience. Under this pernicious regime job seekers and their dependants lose a sense of control over their lives where individual will and intellect must yield to an all-powerful supervisory authority. So many jobseekers forced to surrender their independent identity in this way spiral into depression and instability while subjected to a process of gradual infantilisation by the job service culture. 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Accountability for Whom?<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >The unemployed are denied an authentic voice and treated as ‘other’, lazy and incapable of any self-direction by governments keen to shift the responsibility away from their own culpability. They are helped by conservative Christian organisations more than willing to extend their sphere of influence over society's most vulnerable. Now that it is no longer socially accepted for such Christians to exercise paternalistic control over Aboriginal people another captive market must be manufactured using the hapless unemployed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >To deflect criticism that government intervention quarantining welfare payments for food and rent in Northern Territory aboriginal communities is racist they are extending this intrusive micro-management to the lives of <b>all</b></span><span style=";font-family:";" > unemployed welfare recipients. Somehow this is supposed to address the racist intent of this project but what about the classism involved in this new plan? No one mentions class any more - refugees maybe, land rights maybe, but something as banal as the human rights of working class people in Australia seems to be forgotten as an issue. How long before we see the reintroduction of Dickensian workhouses for the poor or the introduction of American-style food stamps?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >The Salvation Army I believe has collaborated with the previous conservative government to shift blame away from government mismanagement of the economy to construct a self-serving public view of unemployment. They peddle the myth that unemployment is caused by individual character flaws inherent within the jobless. </span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Recently I came across a fund raising letter from the Salvation Army referring to their clients with the oxymoronic claim: "We don't judge them even when its self inflicted."</span><span style=";font-family:";" > I perceive such organisations as being more concerned with empire building than assisting lower socio-economic groups.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjio5k9uMPKeoaiX_b5Yhi_6ddVlo3lK8kCvNlV-9FpK_fB-C1ytZlER4HgE0VnMKzCKXNIOZv4lYyIC5oFf5e5YAsk8Rh_muf9EveE-0UJWFBwYzkjKrDwepAxHwyERv12i04U7eyBnZA/s1600-h/work+solutions_overlay2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjio5k9uMPKeoaiX_b5Yhi_6ddVlo3lK8kCvNlV-9FpK_fB-C1ytZlER4HgE0VnMKzCKXNIOZv4lYyIC5oFf5e5YAsk8Rh_muf9EveE-0UJWFBwYzkjKrDwepAxHwyERv12i04U7eyBnZA/s400/work+solutions_overlay2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410528920799103154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p>For the record, there has been one Christian job agency that our family and many other jobless have found to be consistently helpful and responsive to our needs. This has been the Wesley Employment Service. But you know what? The Rudd government </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >eliminated them from taxpayer funding </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >in their job network restructure </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >eliminated them from taxpayer funding.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" > Interestingly, many church providers have called for an independent review of the process for allocating employment services contracts. Frank Quinlan head of Catholic Social Services<a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1884956226041874792&postID=4495365321055479884#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></a><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> </span>commenting on their loss of contracts claims: "These agencies have been successfully providing government services for more than a decade, but are still not treated as partners"[2].</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >This begs the question: “Why don't the unemployed share in the decision-making process and why aren't they the ones treated as partners rather than the churches? Whatever happened to the separation of power between church and state? On what grounds do these agencies claim to 'have been successfully providing government services'? This is certainly not the view of the long-term unemployed or any independent evaluation that I know of. Why is there no evidence-based assessment or costs/benefit analysis of the job services sector and why is there a total lack of accountability <b><u>to</u></b></span><span style=";font-family:";" > their unemployed clients?<span style=""> </span>Perhaps because its not about “helping” the unemployed but about exploitation, punishment, surveillance and social control of the underclass victims of structural changes in our economy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >Unable to write well because I have RSI of the wrist and a bad back I contacted several job agencies asking if they would help me to write letters to potential employers. I was told that they would only <b>teach</b></span><span style=";font-family:";" > me how to write a letter (which I already knew how to do) and “supervise” my efforts to find work but “we won't do your hack work for you” (response from the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service). When I rang the Centrelink help line to inform them that the help I was receiving through the Welfare to Work program was unhelpful I was told: “We'll decide what's good for you not you!”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVd6fsZ1Ajqdrvo0nTpioaIxeRfQsumlzUpLd8vbCvChbpL8QfUpL9VUS2jrW_1aP-_g_6CxDBgkdYHHvh0syqjpcnUfb9RwGGp2GXis4eYu_0H_3e10czGGRBsMWRWA7TSll2M3TXsWE/s1600-h/Business+Model.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVd6fsZ1Ajqdrvo0nTpioaIxeRfQsumlzUpLd8vbCvChbpL8QfUpL9VUS2jrW_1aP-_g_6CxDBgkdYHHvh0syqjpcnUfb9RwGGp2GXis4eYu_0H_3e10czGGRBsMWRWA7TSll2M3TXsWE/s400/Business+Model.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410486662508087778" border="0" /></a></span></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >To even the casual observer it seems that taxpayers are ploughing billions of dollars into the job service sector to create a few millionaires rather than millions of jobs for the many. When have the unemployed ever been consulted about what they want or which job service they perceive is successful or not? Herein lies the problem – tax payer funds that are supposed to help the unemployed obtain work are treated as booty by the winning job service agencies. It becomes less about service to the unemployed and more about serving powerful vested interests.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" > <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Church-based agencies claim the non-government sector is more responsive to the needs of the community and that many of the service roles of government should be subcontracted to them and paid for by the taxpayer. They think they know what's best for the unemployed without even talking to us, call for devolution of power from the public service and use buzzwords like 'government silos'. The problem with all this from the perspective of unemployed people is: we would prefer that the people trying to control our lives are at least elected, accountable to unemployed stakeholders and not protected from client scrutiny by commercial confidentiality provisions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;">
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Commodification of the Unemployed<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >Conditions are ripe for exploitation when the marginalised and vulnerable are placed under the jurisdiction of corporate entities that lack accountability or public scrutiny and governed by profit making business incentives. The Australian public is aware of foreign students taking to the streets en mass to protest dodgy educators and sham training practices. Far less visible though is the futile treadmill of shoddy 'welfare-to-work' training imposed on disadvantaged Australians courtesy of the taxpayer. The Howard government has funded and outsourced an existential dilemma defined by their job network business model as:<span style=""> </span>'jobseeker unable to exit the continuum '. Older lower socio-economic women trapped in this endless merry-go-round are showing symptoms of depression and emotional trauma which are now being diagnosed by some psychologists as an 'adjustment disorder'. One could also call it extreme capitalism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">The welfare budget is drained by the job service sector as welfare dollars are redirected into corporation coffers and church organisations yet New Start recipients haven't had a decent pay rise in a decade. </span><span style=";font-family:";" >Even the Prime Minister’s wife, Therese Rein, was able to sell her job agency for a cool $40 million but besides churning paper and lives what do job service businesses really do besides training hapless unemployed to beg for jobs that don’t exist?</span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"> Through government patronage b</span><span style=";font-family:";" >illions of public dollars are being siphoned out of the welfare budget to make private millionaires. The only criticism made by the parliamentary opposition when it was revealed </span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">the fortune </span><span style=";font-family:";" >Ms Rein </span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">made out of </span><span style=";font-family:";" >her job agency business was to chide the Labor Party for not being more appreciative of the system they introduced that has proven so efficient in using public money to create private wealth for the favoured few.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US">Yet unlike those patronised by government largess the conditions under which long term unemployed must survive are onerous and insecure: “Centrelink demands people look for work where none exists, recipients have to keep looking month after month, year in, year out. They don't get four weeks annual leave from jobseeking. If they fail to meet their obligations they are harshly penalised losing income for up to 8 weeks. Welfare recipients are also the most highly taxed - with effective marginal tax rates between 50-70% crippling part time workers.”[3]</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzyvOJJoBDuwxeEI_43uqbZ9s-bhriSyU__g10ZXiqm6mz5jRUWN7iSLCX36qGZTuZCbM2QJLHUWwqvTtsQWklLtuBOvJggGV9HlslbJ9aC5YqpkM7xhu3n2rwvz9mpJfQrYeOG6T9-8/s1600-h/Solutions+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzyvOJJoBDuwxeEI_43uqbZ9s-bhriSyU__g10ZXiqm6mz5jRUWN7iSLCX36qGZTuZCbM2QJLHUWwqvTtsQWklLtuBOvJggGV9HlslbJ9aC5YqpkM7xhu3n2rwvz9mpJfQrYeOG6T9-8/s400/Solutions+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410457899302857634" border="0" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-US"><a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1884956226041874792&postID=4495365321055479884#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >My partner a part-time teacher, lecturer and artist, whilst temporarily out of work was informed by an employee of Employment Plus<a name="KVWin_undoend"></a> that they “owned” him. This was referring to the fact that as he had been registered with them for more than 6 months he could no longer elect to change to another job agency. Many unemployed find that this agency is reasonably helpful until the first six months has elapsed and then staff adopt a punitive approach. I know several former Employment Plus clients who describe being treated shabbily and kept too busy with sham job training to actually look for work. </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">They report obtaining work solely through their own individual efforts and in spite of the job agency rather than because of them.</span></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:130%;" ></span></p>
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Jobs for the Boys<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >My impression is that so-called intensive assistance for long-term unemployed at Employment Plus has been provided by disinterested 'gap year' kids filling in time until eligible for independent study allowance at university. The turnover was high with mainly 18 to 20 year old staff lasting about a year on average. Their expertise in providing intensive assistance was less than obvious as they seemed to be merely going through the motions in an apathetic manner. The newly appointed staff would often impose compulsory appointments for the unemployed to attend while they cursorily flipped through their file for the purported purpose of familiarising themselves with their clients. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >If the government was truly interested in tackling the current bias against employing mature age workers it could start by ensuring an affirmative action recruitment policy in the taxpayer funded Jobs Services Australia previously known as Job Network. For example vacancies for<span style=""> </span>jobs providing intensive assistance to mature age jobless could be filled by older unemployed office workers and teachers instead of reinforcing existing age discrimination in the wider workforce. Older job seekers tend to feel more comfortable being supervised by case workers with some maturity and life experience rather than recent school leavers anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";" >Unfortunately because the government has subcontracted this work to non government agencies it has washed its hands of the responsibility to encourage equal opportunity in this sector. Our society is devaluing a whole generation of working-class people by throwing them on to the scrap heap well before their use-by date. It is also harder to regulate the private sector to ensure merit based employment even though they are taxpayer funded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Earlier this year Frank Quinlan, indicated the level of politicisation inside the employment services sector. This was in response to former Minister for Employment Participation Brendan O'Connor's comments that people who had lost their jobs at Centacare job agency because of government restructuring “should be able to find employment with companies that were awarded contracts.” Quinlan described this as "like suggesting Liberal Party staffers who lost their jobs after the election could have taken on new jobs with the Labor Party." [4]</span>
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Intensive Assistance</b></span></p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >As well as inferior service many unemployed have experienced a culture of exploitation and abuse in the job service sector. My partner for example, while receiving intensive assistance at Employment Plus, was never able to access the financial assistance for travel and commercial training from them that he was supposed to receive. Accessing benefits that one is eligible for from job seeker accounts was something of a black art for Employment Plus clients. There was a futile run around and stalling that lasted for weeks whenever my partner requested his legitimate entitlements. Yet there was no shortage of shoddy in-house training that was compulsory. For this, if clients were more than 10 minutes late they would be forced to reschedule and ran the risk of being breached or losing their benefits. Rather than chance the unreliable bus service many clients would come by car then faced the challenge of finding a car park in time on busy Hunter Street. There were only half or one hour parking spots available in the vicinity and clients would face hefty parking fines if there were any unexpected delays returning from the agency. After receiving one such fine that nearly destroyed our family's depleted budget I found it difficult to “thank God for the Salvos” and we certainly don't accept that this so-called charity is “helping” the poor. If I could rewrite their annual Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal advertising campaign it would say:</span><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span>' Give generously to our winter appeal for EQUALITY ... make charity history! 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<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span>The problem I have with many charities is that they create an inaccurate perception among the general public that they are helping all disadvantaged families when in fact only a fraction are cherry picked to receive material assistance. This makes life worse for the majority of low income families by masking the full extent of unaddressed hardship and disadvantage within the community. By creating the false impression that if the public donates to these charities then the problems of unemployed families will be solved with no need for government measures to address social disadvantage and job creation, they mainly help themselves to bigger budgets and empire building. There is this whole myth created about deserving and undeserving poor which is socially regressive when used in the context of unemployment and underemployment.</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-US" ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.55pt;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL79Z2iNHwuPhzmG__U8iZMw8_vFkt1fX0dGJtn7r4kQO_2PDymcTBabJTNcHu0L4G2NTvrg5qKlSRWes7ruGK23TCp4zBJFWPXNnTTqIKAwHeNJ6dsFC6H9wGkWBmvrdxr0AyUkvFonY/s1600-h/Charity.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL79Z2iNHwuPhzmG__U8iZMw8_vFkt1fX0dGJtn7r4kQO_2PDymcTBabJTNcHu0L4G2NTvrg5qKlSRWes7ruGK23TCp4zBJFWPXNnTTqIKAwHeNJ6dsFC6H9wGkWBmvrdxr0AyUkvFonY/s400/Charity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410484768059163698" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. The Road to Privatisation of Social Services </span></span></span>
<br /></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The dysfunction within the whole system of employment services is not just a matter of teething problems or bedding down. Due to the revolving door nature of my own employment, in between periods of paid work there has been child raising and caring for a mother with dementia, I have watched the system of dealing with unemployed people go from bad to worse in this country. 15 years ago the government had Skill Share, a precursor of Job Network. During a temporary period that I was registered as unemployed I was supposed to receive help with writing and editing my resume in order to find employment through Skill Share. Because at that time very few low income earners had word processors or computers it was a necessary service. Yet when I tried to legitimately access help at Newcastle Skill Share to update my CV by adding three new entries, a staff member told me I would first have to do a word processing course at their centre. This supposed course held in a crowded classroom took me 20 minutes to get some instruction for the first line and then another 20 minutes before my turn came around again for 30 seconds of help for the second-line. When I got stuck at the third line I got frustrated with all the time it was taking to receive help and gave up. Imagine how someone suffering poor concentration or low self-esteem would cope with this kind of substandard course particularly if it was compulsory. When I expressed my dissatisfaction with not receiving appropriate assistance to a supervisor at Newcastle Skill Share, I was told that their policies had changed. They no longer provided help in updating unemployed people’s resumes unless they first completed their course. The supervisor informed me this decision had come from the management committee yet they wouldn't allow my request that unemployed stakeholders be represented on this committee. I further asked to see where the budget they received from the government to assist unemployed people was being allocated and was told that unemployed people were not privy to this information. I expressed concern that in the interest of transparency, full disclosure of these pertinent details should be readily available to the unemployed. The supervisor seemed quite defensive and evasive dismissing my requests without explanation.
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<br />Such secrecy has thrived today protected by commercial confidentiality provisions in taxpayer funded private job agencies. These prevent the unemployed from exercising the Freedom of Information rights they had under earlier government departments such as the Commonwealth Employment Service before it was outsourced to the private sector. Witnessing this incident at Skill Share was an embarrassed-looking employee who I recognised as a senior member of a progressive party that claimed to promote social justice. Perhaps because she was worried about losing her job, she acquiesced while an unemployed person's rights were being trampled on. Tellingly within months of this incident a major conflict of interest at Charlestown Skill Share was uncovered by the media in which the manager without calling for tenders and at taxpayers expense, was profiting from selling his old business computers back to Skill Share at a huge mark up beyond the market value. Ironically, when the government dismantled Skill Share to make way for a new system there was a flurry of letters and statements to the press claiming all the wonderful outcomes Skill Share had achieved for unemployed people and how efficient they were in training unemployed people with cost-effective courses. 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Breaking the Silence</span> </span></span>
<br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This scenario seemed to repeat itself in March of this year when Job Network was being restructured into Job Services Australia by the new incoming Federal government. Australian Greens senator Rachel Siewart and Catholic social services head Father Frank Quinlan both praised the job services sector in the media[5] but there was little sign they had consulted the long-term unemployed. Frank Quinlan was quoted in the media as asking: “Why would the unemployed want Job Network to close at a time like this?” As an unemployed person I would have liked to tell him exactly why, based on my own family's experience, but when I tracked down his phone number I found it a challenge to get past his efficient secretary. It would have been nice if people in such positions enabled feedback directly from the people they claim to speak for. Greens Senator Rachel Siewert asserts that: “The government … will be directly sending hundreds, if not thousands, of people into unemployment when they take the services (Job Network) away from these community organisations” But in siding with the job service lobby I believe she is not acting in the interests of unemployed people and has not addressed our needs. Paying middle class people to supervise and interfere with the lives of working class Australians is not a viable Greens employment strategy and will ultimately lead to social imbalance and instability. Many long term unemployed take issue with her support for Job Network and business as usual in their treatment of the unemployed. In fact long term unemployed people have experienced an adversarial relationship with job service providers. Indeed a letter to Sydney Morning Herald last year from a Job Network employee who described her role as "helping" the unemployed then went on to publicly villify her clients as "bludgers and scroungers". Yet instead of listening to the jobless the Greens seem to be supporting unfounded claims that job service providers "for the last 20 years have … delivered high quality services with high levels of outcomes" when the evidence from the unemployed suggests otherwise. The Greens seem to advocate jobs supervising and monitoring the lives of unemployed people as somehow a laudable Greens employment strategy. When I contacted Senator Bob Brown to ask why they had taken this position he never wrote back but one of his staffers told me by phone that “ it just depends on who makes the most volume”. This makes it hard for the unemployed to be heard as they are often afraid to speak out publicly for fear they will suffer payback or breaching from the job service sector. Is this Greens policy social justice or political pragmatism?</span></span><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-US" ></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcvhIMpIfRbNfecn_tAFEf1m2HTYL-krODhcVPSj8hd7n5cBCyZEVv8aOJoKL0_f4IJlyELzaBQMlHpw1_ibHFZUZjbYEaYtFSdHi33o4NiXOS-_TQIRRrjXqVQeemjsWEPVNXl_AZkk/s1600-h/Repainted+Door.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcvhIMpIfRbNfecn_tAFEf1m2HTYL-krODhcVPSj8hd7n5cBCyZEVv8aOJoKL0_f4IJlyELzaBQMlHpw1_ibHFZUZjbYEaYtFSdHi33o4NiXOS-_TQIRRrjXqVQeemjsWEPVNXl_AZkk/s400/Repainted+Door.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410494174972130722" border="0" /></a></p><div> </div> <p style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><b>10. Work for the Dole - </b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>The Illegitimacy of Volunteer Work<o:p></o:p></b>
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Much volunteer work these days is compulsory and is used as a way of warehousing the unemployed where they are forced to sit around all day doing nothing. Often their supervisors seem to wipe their hands of any duty of care as far as mental health goes even if they tick the boxes when it comes to other OH & S issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">In schemes such as Wallsend Work for the Dole at Newcastle Community Art Centre (NCAC) I have witnessed the same doors painted and repainted 3 or 4 times in 6 weeks and scores of participants sitting around for hours bored and miserable with no meaningful work to do. When the NCAC board requested Wallsend Work for the Dole organisers provide meaningful work for all their participants they explained that they only have enough work and supervision for limited numbers but that Centrelink keeps sending far more than they can use in spite of repeated requests. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Ironically some of these work-for-the-dole participants are artists on income support who have been forced out of meaningful work in their studios to repaint doors over and over again that didn't need repainting in the first place.<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Yet unemployed and underemployed people on welfare assistance who willingly volunteer many useful hours to organisations such as the Wilderness Society, Greenpeace and other environment groups find it doesn't count towards their mutual obligation requirements because the selection of approved volunteer organisations is heavily politicised.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLt89saO5Hp-fn5j-g-b-dhGYUgQAdWDEeEKhFkT6q_r7l2gUDwwSMht0DN9fp18V21lLLvwGurs1X6Si7Myj4TZP-n674ETzD1N40TX1qPn8wmQYgMRAlba7aWBRjoFoWy2vhYAob_5Y/s1600/Labour+In+Vain+small.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLt89saO5Hp-fn5j-g-b-dhGYUgQAdWDEeEKhFkT6q_r7l2gUDwwSMht0DN9fp18V21lLLvwGurs1X6Si7Myj4TZP-n674ETzD1N40TX1qPn8wmQYgMRAlba7aWBRjoFoWy2vhYAob_5Y/s200/Labour+In+Vain+small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546685086098515394" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >These are the impressions I’ve gained since coming into the Centrelink and job services system ready and willing to participate in the economy yet being denied one’s rightful place. How can the unemployed still be part of Australia while separated from the rest of society by a system of economic apartheid? I’m sitting at the banquet with an empty plate, should I call myself a diner? Through direct experience and observation I’ve witnessed the commodification of the unemployed who are batch processed by a dysfunctional and brutalizing system into second-class citizens. The unemployed are brushed under the carpet of social conscience, denied an authentic voice and made invisible to the wider community while simultaneously subject to an all-encompassing controlling scrutiny, surveillance and coercive supervision by the employment services sector.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:130%;" >
<br /></span><p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">In my opinion it is morally bankrupt for the churches to claim that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">unemployed people need </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;">their moral intervention. If the churches are so concerned about morality then they could start by allowing justice for <b>all</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"> clergy abuse survivors and heal the train wreck of broken lives they caused. Only a Royal Commission or parliamentary inquiry is ever going to reveal the truth about what’s been happening to survivors of unemployment and clergy abuse. When someone has meaningful work then s/he is granted status and respect in the community and gains pride and confidence. It is more important to change the priorities of society to guarantee full employment and respect for all citizens rather than focusing on changing the unemployed individual because of contrived character flaws. From where I stand job service agencies are just parasites feeding off the misery of others.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The billions of dollars spent on the employment services sector has done nothing for the long term unemployed but create anxiety and disempowerment. Most long-term unemployed want rid of this paternalistic bureaucracy and for these tax dollars to be spent on subsidizing jobs in the arts, education, environment friendly energy, infrastructure and cooperative employment ventures for the jobless instead. The massive expenditure on monitoring and supervising the unemployed is wasteful and is creating a permanent underclass. If we keep going this way we'll have one half of Australia being paid to watch the other half.
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">If we really want to solve unemployment then a 30 hour week and banning overtime would be a good step as would expanding the public service to absorb those unable to find a private employer. This could be paid for by imposing greater government levies on the resources sector to pay its way for continuing to exploit Australia's minerals and energy. Anti-villification laws should be immediately introduced to ban words such as "dole bludger" and “job snobs” that devalue and slander the unemployed and underemployed. It is also time to challenge the stereotypes of what constitutes real work in the post-industrial age.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="trebuchet ms"><span style="font-size:130%;">Long-term jobseekers question why our country's wealth isn't used to invest in equality, utilising and valuing the talents of all citizens to create a society based on cooperation rather than competition. What if we used our common wealth to create millions of jobs instead of a few millionaires? Australia has the resources to create whatever society it wants to if there is political will. Imagine if we used Australia's bountiful resources to create sustainable industries and full employment instead of artificial scarcity and environmental catastrophe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">All photographs and text copyright Bernadette Smith
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style=""> [1] </span>17/5/08<span style=""> </span>Sydney Morning Herald<span style=""> </span>pg 30 'A Whiff of Compassion' by Adele Horin</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><!--EndFragment--> </p><!--EndFragment--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:";" ><a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1884956226041874792&postID=4495365321055479884#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span></span><!--[endif]--> <div style=""><div style="" id="ftn1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1884956226041874792&postID=4495365321055479884#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="FootnoteCharacters"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--></span></span></span></a></span></p> </div> </div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span> <div style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> [2] </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=12790">http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=12790</a><span style=""><a href="http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=12790"> </a> </span>'Job service changes "madness": Quinlan' April 03, 2009</span></span><!--EndFragment--> </div> <!--EndFragment--><span style="font-size:85%;">
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