“In Australia, anyone can get a job if they try hard enough. Therefore, unemployed people are dole bludgers and job snobs.”
According to figures released by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in September 2014 there are 156,000 job vacancies. Competing for these job vacancies are more than 750,000 unemployed people. Simply put, this means that if all the job vacancies were filled by unemployed people, there would still more than 600,000 unemployed people left over. When the high amount of underemployed Australians are factored in – which in July 2014 was 920,000 – on average there are 10 job seekers for every job vacancy in Australia. The quickly increasing rate of Long-term unemployed is a clear indication of how hard it is to find work today.
Instead of blaming the unemployed, our government needs to start creating jobs and fast. However, over the last few years the government have allowed the number job vacancies to fall dramatically.
The current Coalition government is doing nothing to lift the level of job vacancies – in fact they are actively contributing to further unemployment. Before being elected, the Coalition government promised it would create 2 million jobs within a decade. It has since been revealed that this promise is actually below the total employment growth rate expected. For example, in the previous decade, employment in Australia had grown by 2.06 million units. So, the current government is actually promising to do slightly worse than the past. In fact, the only thing this election promise will create is further unemployment.
Thankyou for exposing yet another coalition lie designed to steal from struggling Australians to benefit the wealthiest 1% who this regime is beholden to.
It is very convenient for someone who have never been unemployed to state such an erroneous and general statement. There are many other factors which may make a person employed or unemployable. Not trying hard is one of many reasons but certainly not the important one. Not even among the major reasons. Here you have some
Here are some reasons that can make you unemployed for long time:
1-Lack of social and business contact
2-Lack of opportunities in your suburb, town or State,
3-Being profiled and pushed to the edge of the society which make certain people undesired.
4-Lack of capital which needed for self-employment
5-The entrenched classism, ageism and sexism which dominated the overall workplace picture.
6- Having the wrong ethnicity, postcode etc
7- Falling behind your peers (Age Group) in carer, social, financial progress for reasons such as migration, illness, or other reasons. Once you fall behind your age group, it is highly likely that you can’t catch up because your skills and employment record dose not match the average person in your age. You Will Certainly Have to Struggle. Try to explain you situation to an employer. Gooooooooood luck
This is a good example of how wrong the system is.. yes there are jobs out there, if the companys want you to take them.. ive had many arsehole boss’s who would rather just screw with lives and line there own pockets than give a shit out people.
Articles like these put the consumer in the driver seat-very imrtatpno.
From personal experience, I know it’s less likely for me to get work than it is for me to win a prize in Lotto. Lotto has odds of 1 in 85. In 2014, I applied for over 100 jobs, and never got hired. Let’s talk about the numbers games, shall we?
(Am I the only person who looks at the news reports which are saying “X thousand new jobs” every month, and wondering why the unemployment rate isn’t going down? I mean, I suspect what’s actually happening is that the “new jobs” being proclaimed are actually rotating 3 or 6 month short term contracts, which are counted as “new” jobs every time they’re re-advertised. Meanwhile the people who used to do those jobs are back on the dole every 3 to 6 months, and what we’re actually seeing is a gigantic game of musical chairs.)
When John Hewson made his run for office he did the crocodile tear thing about the poor unemployment situation under labour. 9.2% ???.
But then admitted that Australia has a Government wide policy of 10% unemployment, so unemployment would have been made even worse by his government, the Libs, by bringing in more people to create the 10%. Its Capitalist Bull Crap, started in the seventies when Corporates needed to defeat the New Deal. The number of unemployed will always have to out number the number of Jobs, its how Capitalism works, keeps wages down and destroys the middle class economy. Thats whats happening in America, everybody wants to sell something and theres no one left with any money after rent, electricity etc..
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