Adele Horin writing in this morning's SMH:
"The news that the Federal Government has registered the welfare arm of Hillsong Church as the state's - and possibly the country's - biggest charitable provider of financial counselling services to indigent unemployed people has raised alarm bells in some quarters."
This is worrying as Horin rightly points out - especially as other welfare organisations don't want a bar of the Federal Government's welfare scheme. As Horin goes on to write:
"The dominance of Hillsong Emerge is due to the refusal of all the major charities so far to have anything to do with the Federal Government's new scheme. Their boycott is fuelled by a belief that the scheme is morally unjustifiable. It will strip an estimated 18,000 people a year of their unemployment benefits for eight weeks for infringing job search rules, and then turn around and offer financial counselling - and the chance to get some money back from Centrelink for essentials - to an estimated 4000 of those deemed highly vulnerable."
Read the complete Horin piece here.
"The news that the Federal Government has registered the welfare arm of Hillsong Church as the state's - and possibly the country's - biggest charitable provider of financial counselling services to indigent unemployed people has raised alarm bells in some quarters."
This is worrying as Horin rightly points out - especially as other welfare organisations don't want a bar of the Federal Government's welfare scheme. As Horin goes on to write:
"The dominance of Hillsong Emerge is due to the refusal of all the major charities so far to have anything to do with the Federal Government's new scheme. Their boycott is fuelled by a belief that the scheme is morally unjustifiable. It will strip an estimated 18,000 people a year of their unemployment benefits for eight weeks for infringing job search rules, and then turn around and offer financial counselling - and the chance to get some money back from Centrelink for essentials - to an estimated 4000 of those deemed highly vulnerable."
Read the complete Horin piece here.
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