Australia’s seen enough shut shops and Centrelink queues to disbelieve the old beat-ups. So why is the prime minister restarting them?

Economists are calling the impact of coronavirus a “depression-level crisis”; it is stunning to consider the Liberal government refusing to remember the lessons of the Depression. Pandemic or not, sacked workers cannot furnish markets with spending, and neither can the workers without jobs to go back to when jobseeker payments are halved and jobkeeper taken away – scheduled for September. They won’t be spending big in the Laundy family’s 30 pubs.

They’ll be fighting to keep their families together – nursing a bitter awareness of just who abandoned them, and for how little.

via The ‘job snob’ stereotype has been used for decades to denigrate the unemployed. Facts tell a different story | Australian economy | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/30/deeply-hurtful-claims-of-australian-jobseekers-turning-down-work-are-based-on-scant-evidence