The government decided to ditch it’s hard-working employers at the Department of Human Services who managed debts owed to Centrelink, despite their warnings that switching to an automated computer system would end in disaster.
Sure enough, it wasn’t long before Centrelink was sending out letters and hounding people for money they simply did not have thanks to a glitch in the system.
If the whole point of a government is to have a responsible group of people elected into office to serve, protect and honour it’s citizens, how does Australia keep getting it so wrong?
There is a lot of focus on the governing Liberal party right now, with detractors claiming it is typical of the party to put their own needs and interests ahead of the people’s.
But if we’re honest, can we really say that Labor has treated us any better lately? This is in no way a bid to take sides and label one party better than the other; it is simply pointing out that both of our major parties have failed us in recent years.