Dear Editor
I ended up in hospital in 2018 because I could not afford to see a doctor. Seeing a dentist is impossible. Cancer of the mouth then becomes a real risk from rotting teeth.
What is NOT known but what is commonly assumed, is that if one is unemployed you are on the dole. NOT SO. I have just had to remonstrate with Westpac on this very issue but I was told I was lying.
If your spouse earns $44K or thereabouts then there is no entitlement to anything apart from accommodation supplement.
The woman at Westpac told me that was nothing and I said that is what we live on. She replied I can’t see how you can live on that.
There is a whole cohort of men 55 plus who fall into his trap. But there has been a displacement of men and they are treated as disposable.
I would love to be working but the barrier to entry is gender and age bias by HR.
In the Wokus Pocus of hearing people’s “voices”, middle-aged male voices don’t count – male pale and stale – all the prejudices in one sentence!
I sometimes think that the new socialism is predominantly a female thing.
There are also women in this trap too and they got some traction in articles during Covid but it has fallen by the wayside.
Signed
Graham
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