Garner called it “a ticking time bomb” and warned of a looming lost generation trapped in doomscrolling, welfare dependency, and disengagement.
Garner noted that early welfare interaction leads to long-term dependency: “When someone interacts with welfare then they’ll stay on or interact with welfare for the next 22 years.” He argued that young people should face tougher expectations, similar to Australia’s work-for-the-dole rules after one year on benefits.
Vocational expert Tina Akuhata, who has worked extensively in Australia and New Zealand, said the real problem runs deeper than policy design: “We’ve been too lefty. Government dependency has become a way to redistribute the country’s wealth rather than building skills and social mobility.”
Akuhata said Australia handles young jobseekers differently: “If they weren’t doing something, they weren’t getting their benefits,” she explained. In Australia, young people must be engaged in 25 hours of work, education, or training each week to qualify for welfare.
Both Garner and Akuhata warned that without serious reform, New Zealand risks creating a permanent underclass. “We can’t just sit and let this cohort rot,” Garner said. “Work is the answer. Work changes lives.”
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Vocational expert Tina Akuhata, who has worked extensively in Australia and New Zealand, said the real problem runs deeper than policy design: “We’ve been too lefty. Government dependency has become a way to redistribute the country’s wealth rather than building skills and social mobility.”
Akuhata said Australia handles young jobseekers differently: “If they weren’t doing something, they weren’t getting their benefits,” she explained. In Australia, young people must be engaged in 25 hours of work, education, or training each week to qualify for welfare.
Both Garner and Akuhata warned that without serious reform, New Zealand risks creating a permanent underclass. “We can’t just sit and let this cohort rot,” Garner said. “Work is the answer. Work changes lives.”
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5 comments:
Welfare dependency long term for the fit and able provides a victim pool of voters for certain parties to tap and efforts such as those in Australia would be portrayed as victimising too. And race can always be thrown in ad nauseum.
This is what socialism through influencing education has desired all along. Progressive education has deliberately , yes deliberately , promoted ineffective teaching methods , knowledge poor content and no discipline or ethics including a work ethic.
Products of this education are unemployable since 40% , yes 40 % ate functionally illiterate meaning they struggle with daily tasks . Basic maths skills are even worse.
The victims of our current iniquitous education have resulted in a great underclass destined for welfare or jail.
Those who are Maori are not the victims of colonisation but of our education system.
When is this going to sink into the population, so the reform of education can start ? Marxism in any area and the progeny of progressivism always ends in disaster and misery .
More attention needs to be paid to the post-basic (by which I mean post Year 10) school cycle in terms of its articulation with career-oriented education and specific career pathways. This works quite well in NZ in relation to science-intensive programmes at upper secondary level meshing with biomedical, agricultural and veterinary, and other science-related programmes at varsity. The view of upper secondary schooling as a preparation for post-school career-oriented programmes needs to be extended more into the technical and vocational area. Dual school/tech enrolment works very well and motivates learners to do well at school, something often missing as they see no point in it. This applies especially to boys, for whom a mixed programme leading to a trade or technical career can be a huge incentive.
Will this disaster ever sink in? Seriously.
Well the answer is simple. The government needs to adopt Australia’s policy for starters. However, I have believed for some time if you are young, fit and healthy you should not receive any benefits.
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