Indigenous WFTD scheme slaps participants with 400,000 fines

[davidc4430]

Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme slaps participants with more than 400,000 fines

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-10/indigenous-work-for-the-dole-scheme-fines-spike/9534088

it should make NO difference where one lives, the rules should be the same.

[chameleon54]

While the article is too short on detail to draw any conclusions about this particular story, from what I have seen with many of the unemployed young people I know, the work for the dole scheme has been highly succesful in encouraging them into the workforce of their own accord or to give them some real life work experience and skills to assist in finding work.

The problem on remote indiginous communities is that there are very few local jobs available, even if the people concerned genuinly want to work.

Unfortunately Australia at present has a large structural unemployment problem. There are simply not enough low skilled and semi skilled positions to go around. There needs to be some compassion and common sense in allowing structuraly unemployed people to live with a sense of dignity & purpose. The fairly recent steps to disallow volunteering in community service instead of work for the dole are a major retrograve step and should be repealed. 

[tezza2844]

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@davidc4430wrote:

Indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme slaps participants with more than 400,000 fines

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-10/indigenous-work-for-the-dole-scheme-fines-spike/9534088

it should make NO difference where one lives, the rules should be the same.

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The rules are quite inflexible, and penalise participants where there is a lack of transport or a time factor. It's very hard for people from remote or even outlying areas of cities to attend some of these "courses" because of their  location situation.