As Carl Benjamin furiously noted, last week, Britain now spends £12 billion per month on welfare. That’s just over one-third of all government spending flushed into the grasping hands of the leaning class. New Zealand spends the same percentage, or nearly 1/10th of the nation’s GDP. Australia is little better, with 30 per cent of the government budget getting sunk into welfare.
The vast bulk of Australia’s welfare spending is flushed into the bottomless pit of the NDIS, a system ripe for the scamming. As it happens, the highest concentrations of ‘NDIS providers’ are in Labor seats, with the most intense clusters all in Western Sydney. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, court photos of the few NDIS scammers who’ve been actually caught and charged are a rogues’ gallery of beards and hijabs (sometimes on the same person).
But that’s far from the only way in which low-trust-culture migrants are leeching off the Australian taxpayer. As former PM Tony Abbott noted, Centrelink management more-or-less openly instructed their staff to turn a blind eye when multiple Muslim women claimed family benefits while their husbands all had the same name. Nor were they to call police when the ‘wives’ were clearly underage.
Country of mugs that we’ve become, we’re also paying a motza to supply free medical treatment to the grasping grannies and gaffers of the Third World.
Enter the lucrative, slow-motion racket of the Aged Parent visa, a bureaucratic masterstroke revealed by a healthcare industry whistleblower who didn’t mince words about the arrangement:
The industry insider described the scam as “underground economic extraction”, and told Noticer News it was “systematically bleeding our public hospital system dry” while everyday Australians are hit with rising prices and massive tax burdens.
The mechanics are so simple even a low-IQ Third Worlder can figure out how to work around them, requiring only an utter lack of shame and an intimate understanding of the Department of Home Affairs’ sheer, gelatinous incompetence. Freshly minted citizens and permanent residents from countries lacking reciprocal healthcare treaties simply pack elderly mum and dad onto a tourist flight. Once the senior arrivals step off the tarmac, the family immediately lodges an application for an Aged Parent (subclass 804) visa.
The official processing queue for this particular bureaucratic prize sits at an astonishing 33 years – and here’s where the scam really hits its stride. Given that human biology tends not to grant centenarians an extra third of a century on the clock, the state obligingly hands them an onshore Bridging visa. Just like that, residency for life is achieved without having to satisfy the inconvenient, expensive requirements of legitimate contributory visas.
When the parents inevitably develop health conditions, their families take them to public hospital emergency departments and claim “financial hardship”. In some cases the families refuse to take them home again, and hospitals cannot legally or ethically turn them away, the whistleblower said.
Under the Hippocratic oath and prevailing hospital liability rules, staff cannot simply dump an ailing octogenarian on the pavement, where, back home, their medical conditions would at least earn them a beggar’s ticket. To keep the immigration department from sniffing out unpaid bills, which might jeopardise future visa claims, the sponsoring relatives, frequently working as subcontractors, massage their taxable income with write-offs or enter into token debt-management schemes that pay back pennies on the dollar.
When nature eventually takes its course, the enormous accumulated hospital invoices are quietly scrubbed from the ledgers as bad debt, leaving the long-suffering, tax-paying mugs of Middle Australia to absorb the loss.
While they might be chump change in comparison to the industrial-scale fraud of the NDIS, the figures are still eye-watering. In New South Wales alone, the auditor-general reported that health authorities wiped out nearly $20 million in unrecoverable bills in a single year, having invoiced over $114 million to patients who weren’t entitled to Medicare. Queensland Health disclosed being left high and dry to the tune of $44 million in unpaid patient debts. Across the board, industry groups like the Healthcare Financial Management Association wring their hands, politely noting that public hospitals face rising fiscal pain while grappling with murky legal boundaries and patients who cannot, or will not, pay.
As the whistleblower aptly summed up the fiasco:
This is a structural collapse of our border and public infrastructure integrity run by unelected technocrats who simply write off the losses.
With Australia’s bridging-visa population ballooning past 440,000, our public institutions are treated like open-access global charities. While local families struggle to see a bulk-billing GP and watch emergency waiting rooms descend into third-world chaos, grifting foreigners are taking us to the cleaners.
Makes you long for the good old days of the “Greek Back”.
