The Greens have had years to come up with a policy of basic income and have failed to do so.
A benefit system is conditional on a person’s relationships, assets or housing situation is cruel, especially with a beneficiary-unsympathetic government who builds in a reward system for officers who get people off benefits.
So when Metiria Turei confessed she had not told welfare the truth about her flatmates 25 years ago the public could understand. A benefit system that virtually encouraged people to lie would be understood. Beneficiaries and former themselves were desperately loyal to Metiria. When Metiria did this the […]
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