Howard to blame for Domestics
THE Howard Government’s annual $3000 “baby bonus” is contributing to domestic violence in low-income households as parents fight over how to spend the money.
Catholic Welfare Australia has done well. They’ve highlighted their cause and managed to blame Howard in the same article.
Catholic Welfare Australia chief executive Frank Quinlan yesterday told a federal parliamentary inquiry into balancing work and family life that his agency was receiving increasing reports of household violence provoked by disputes over welfare payments.People have domestics for lots of reasons and I guess an income spike is one of them but to blame the source of the extra income is drawing a very long bow. The same logic should apply to commerce. Guy works overtime, gets income spike, has domestic over what to spend it on and blames his boss for providing overtime. Get real!
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Kev
Our society is in a blame mode at present. I would recommend that the Howard Govt withdraw the Baby Bonus and then see what the Catholic Welfare Agency does and who it blames. No doubt there will be a fall in consumer spending, people put out of work, clubs will complain about the absence of spending on the pokies, Gaming Grants will dry up and to top it all off the sky will fall in.
I hope that Benedict XVI gets them all back to being a Church and out of the political game.
Take care,
Kel