- Online submission to Federal Employment Minister Eric Abetz
- 28/04/2014 Make a Comment (1)
- Contributed by: LostinSpace ( 7 articles in 2014 )
Dear Eric,
Since 1997 I have been unemployed, unfortunately being forced to withdraw from full time paid employment due to separation difficulties and putting my kids first. As a father raising my two children under an extreme barrage of fire from my ex wife and her family lawyers (legal misnomer), facilitated by a very unfriendly anti-male Family Court and legal institution, with limited help I parented and coped the best way I could.
After many failures with govt/private agencies since 2001 in an attempt to return to work, 17 years later I still remain unemployed, notwithstanding my many skills, personal development, life experiences and volunteer work in the community.
My current on the record Disability Employment provider Ostara has also failed me, ignoring/refusing me help to return to work or even answer my simple questions.
«Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis & Minister for Employment Senator Eric Abetz at the announcement of the Royal Commission into trade union governance and corruption.
How about Government corruption including putting Ministers/CEO's in prison for Breach of Trust and Fraud, with subsequent seizure of their assets returned to the Public Asset Pool?
Centrelink has informed me these DES agencies should be helping me and get well paid to do so. When I tell them Ostara is not, they just look at me bewildered and shocked as if I were speaking another language. I can only wonder what secret deals have been made with these agencies to siphon money from the public purse into the hands of a privileged few.
Despite complaints to numerous govt/private agencies/MP's (7 levels of bureaucracy) help is still refused, with the stress and abuse keeping me locked into recurring Medical Certificates. My pleas for help go unanswered.
People in the system either don't care or don't know what to do to solve the problem. Then there are those who just play the game enough and be politically correct to cover their ass, but effect no results. What a sad day for Australia when we have lost our helping spirit because we are too scared in case we say the wrong thing, lose our job, getting demoted or being hit with a liable action. It really is systemic abuse and a nightmare.
Notwithstanding my wanting to work in alignment with a current push by politicians to force people off the dole into the workforce, the important issues of support to provide such a transition appears to constantly go unaddressed. People like me are left to suffer in a state of perpetual hell as we cannot get the help required to resume a valuable and productive role in the workforce.
Essentially I am denied support both ways. I neither receive a disability payment nor do I get suitable job placement and support. In Australia these inadequacies, prejudices and rorting by corporate welfare needs to cease, alternatively, as individuals, families and communities fall backward, so will the living standards of all classes.
What puzzles me is why my getting help should be so difficult with so many mature professionals employed throughout the government and private sector, especially when support services are ferociously advocated by the government/private agencies from the deed, right through charters, ethics, guidelines to literature and websites. It appears to be simply propaganda without substance conning the community at large.
I can't help get the impression the government wants a socialist and decaying society yet in the media, at lecterns and preceding election days they argue that Australia is a thriving nation where everything is being done to help those unemployed, especially mature age workers get back into the workforce.
In 2012 labour MPs also attempted similar propaganda like 'Supporting mature age workers good for the nation' and in April 2014 a liberal MP, namely yourself, said "The Government will be providing greater incentives to help more unemployed Australians back into the workforce".
However, from my perspective over 17 years I have heard a lot of lip service but not seen a skerrick of actual materialised help or support from any government employment agency. So when I read "Under the Coalition Government total employment has risen by around 87,700 persons, full time employment has risen by 13,200 and part time employment is up 74,500", all contrary to what most folks are going through plus all in about 6 months, I can't help feel there's an awful lot of 'hot air' blowing voluminous quantities of cow manure around.
Of course it is widely understood that stats and figures can be manipulated to provide a result set in any shape or form. Plus more disturbing for politicians these days is having their credibility, in the eyes of the people, between zero and none. For without credit one has nil save god's law of redemption to do what's right; fair, just and equitable.
In concluding, I simply want to say we all need to get real, dispensing with phony lies and fairy tales.
Personally, I don't believe I need much help, just the right help. A simple entitlement that any Employment Minister worth their salt would want to encourage, promote and forge into policy. There are also other people in the same boat who equally want to be provided with quality support systems and resources.
So now aged 50 not knowing where to turn, urgent assistance is required through your Office as soon as practicable enabling suitable employment and a substantial contribution before my life ends.
So to help belay my reasoning and beliefs that the government of the day don't give a damn about people, a view I don't want to keep espousing from the mountain loads of evidence that keeps accruing, will you help me Eric with some affirmative action?
My options are becoming increasingly limited as I climb up the ladder of 'smoke and mirrors', with only the Prime Minister's Office, the media, legal circles and possibly the Queen remaining, if we are still constitutionally valid under Her Majesty of course.
Whilst there too is the Pope, the top of the tree and roots lay with the Australian people, whereupon my plea to all Australians is to unite together seeking better alternatives to that being put forth by those currently in control of the levers of change. Stand tall people as the political landscape and structure is fast changing in Australia.
If you are a man of honour Eric, it would be great to see you as a true leader and pioneer of inspirational, common sense and visionary change.
Whilst I realise your days in Parliament may end sooner than expected, as dissent grows amongst the Australian people toward an out of touch liberal party, or at best in two and a half years before retiring on your extravagant and privileged parliamentarian pension while many go without, seriously helping the unemployed and vulnerable and not just employers, may not only give you a dignified place in the history books, but more importantly a calm and sense of pride only a humble few in power have ever come to realise.
Sources:
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=pressreleases/2012/040a.htm&pageID=003&min=wms&Year=&DocType=
https://abetz.com.au/news
Since 1997 I have been unemployed, unfortunately being forced to withdraw from full time paid employment due to separation difficulties and putting my kids first. As a father raising my two children under an extreme barrage of fire from my ex wife and her family lawyers (legal misnomer), facilitated by a very unfriendly anti-male Family Court and legal institution, with limited help I parented and coped the best way I could.
After many failures with govt/private agencies since 2001 in an attempt to return to work, 17 years later I still remain unemployed, notwithstanding my many skills, personal development, life experiences and volunteer work in the community.
My current on the record Disability Employment provider Ostara has also failed me, ignoring/refusing me help to return to work or even answer my simple questions.
«Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Attorney-General Senator George Brandis & Minister for Employment Senator Eric Abetz at the announcement of the Royal Commission into trade union governance and corruption.How about Government corruption including putting Ministers/CEO's in prison for Breach of Trust and Fraud, with subsequent seizure of their assets returned to the Public Asset Pool?
Centrelink has informed me these DES agencies should be helping me and get well paid to do so. When I tell them Ostara is not, they just look at me bewildered and shocked as if I were speaking another language. I can only wonder what secret deals have been made with these agencies to siphon money from the public purse into the hands of a privileged few.
Despite complaints to numerous govt/private agencies/MP's (7 levels of bureaucracy) help is still refused, with the stress and abuse keeping me locked into recurring Medical Certificates. My pleas for help go unanswered.
People in the system either don't care or don't know what to do to solve the problem. Then there are those who just play the game enough and be politically correct to cover their ass, but effect no results. What a sad day for Australia when we have lost our helping spirit because we are too scared in case we say the wrong thing, lose our job, getting demoted or being hit with a liable action. It really is systemic abuse and a nightmare.
Notwithstanding my wanting to work in alignment with a current push by politicians to force people off the dole into the workforce, the important issues of support to provide such a transition appears to constantly go unaddressed. People like me are left to suffer in a state of perpetual hell as we cannot get the help required to resume a valuable and productive role in the workforce.
Essentially I am denied support both ways. I neither receive a disability payment nor do I get suitable job placement and support. In Australia these inadequacies, prejudices and rorting by corporate welfare needs to cease, alternatively, as individuals, families and communities fall backward, so will the living standards of all classes.
What puzzles me is why my getting help should be so difficult with so many mature professionals employed throughout the government and private sector, especially when support services are ferociously advocated by the government/private agencies from the deed, right through charters, ethics, guidelines to literature and websites. It appears to be simply propaganda without substance conning the community at large.
I can't help get the impression the government wants a socialist and decaying society yet in the media, at lecterns and preceding election days they argue that Australia is a thriving nation where everything is being done to help those unemployed, especially mature age workers get back into the workforce.
In 2012 labour MPs also attempted similar propaganda like 'Supporting mature age workers good for the nation' and in April 2014 a liberal MP, namely yourself, said "The Government will be providing greater incentives to help more unemployed Australians back into the workforce".
However, from my perspective over 17 years I have heard a lot of lip service but not seen a skerrick of actual materialised help or support from any government employment agency. So when I read "Under the Coalition Government total employment has risen by around 87,700 persons, full time employment has risen by 13,200 and part time employment is up 74,500", all contrary to what most folks are going through plus all in about 6 months, I can't help feel there's an awful lot of 'hot air' blowing voluminous quantities of cow manure around.
Of course it is widely understood that stats and figures can be manipulated to provide a result set in any shape or form. Plus more disturbing for politicians these days is having their credibility, in the eyes of the people, between zero and none. For without credit one has nil save god's law of redemption to do what's right; fair, just and equitable.
In concluding, I simply want to say we all need to get real, dispensing with phony lies and fairy tales. Personally, I don't believe I need much help, just the right help. A simple entitlement that any Employment Minister worth their salt would want to encourage, promote and forge into policy. There are also other people in the same boat who equally want to be provided with quality support systems and resources.
So now aged 50 not knowing where to turn, urgent assistance is required through your Office as soon as practicable enabling suitable employment and a substantial contribution before my life ends.
So to help belay my reasoning and beliefs that the government of the day don't give a damn about people, a view I don't want to keep espousing from the mountain loads of evidence that keeps accruing, will you help me Eric with some affirmative action?
My options are becoming increasingly limited as I climb up the ladder of 'smoke and mirrors', with only the Prime Minister's Office, the media, legal circles and possibly the Queen remaining, if we are still constitutionally valid under Her Majesty of course.
Whilst there too is the Pope, the top of the tree and roots lay with the Australian people, whereupon my plea to all Australians is to unite together seeking better alternatives to that being put forth by those currently in control of the levers of change. Stand tall people as the political landscape and structure is fast changing in Australia.
If you are a man of honour Eric, it would be great to see you as a true leader and pioneer of inspirational, common sense and visionary change.
Whilst I realise your days in Parliament may end sooner than expected, as dissent grows amongst the Australian people toward an out of touch liberal party, or at best in two and a half years before retiring on your extravagant and privileged parliamentarian pension while many go without, seriously helping the unemployed and vulnerable and not just employers, may not only give you a dignified place in the history books, but more importantly a calm and sense of pride only a humble few in power have ever come to realise.
Sources:
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=pressreleases/2012/040a.htm&pageID=003&min=wms&Year=&DocType=
https://abetz.com.au/news
Dear Mr Abetz,
I am long term unemployed, almost two decades.
All Employment agencies (incl. Disability) have failed to help me. Some have harmed me.
Some refuse to answer simple questions. Others don't listen or say they have no resources.
I have complained to numerous agencies however my pleas have fallen on deaf ears, including CRRS, DEEWR, Ombudsman's Office and MPs.
I have been pushed from pillar to post and now at the end of the line.
Even Human Services and Centrelink don't know what to say or do.
I have raised children and given to the community, yet I feel I have been trodden on, rejected and neglected.
The negatives from the system only serve to increase my stresses and depression.
To add insult to injury, not only am I refused suitable work placement and support, I am also refused a Disability payment — I can't win either way.
Some say I am the subject of system abuse.
Is our Australian Government Systems so powerless that it is unable to match me with suitable employment and support networks?
My experience proves undeniably it has been, however it needn't be a train wreck of a system with good employment leadership, attitude and policies.
The welfare/employment system relationship must and can be made better to avoid injuring people. Perhaps this is where I could be of benefit as I am passionate about helping people, have a head for systems and problem solving. I have many skills and a real asset in the right environment.
I seek your assistance Eric in every possible way to help kick start my employment rebirth, if not for me, then for the good of our nation.
I look forward to meeting with you.
God Bless
Michael
PS. I wonder how many more are out there are struggling and being affected like this?
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